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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

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
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Himself Religious Soul Teaching
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Call Earth Heaven Learning
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War

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?

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