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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

St. Jerome

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

Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
ST. JEROME

Enough Food One Liner Rich
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME

Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROME

Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME

Busy Devil Yourself
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROME

Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
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.
ST. JEROME

Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROME

Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROME

Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME

Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROME

Bad Goodness Touch Woman
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROME

Man Religious Scripture
If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
ST. JEROME

Face Faith Forever Peace Time World Yourself
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.
ST. JEROME

Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
ST. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Fine Stomach Thinking

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