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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?

St. Jerome

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Hard Impression Mindset White
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Act Action Talk Word
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Man Religious Scripture

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