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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

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
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
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
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
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
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
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
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Big Life Live Ourselves Short
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
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
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Ignorance Worst Yourself
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Marriage Religious Sacred Vice

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