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They talk like angels but they live like men.

St. Jerome

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.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Fine Stomach Thinking
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
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
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
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
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
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Animal Eat Home Sin
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Creation Force God Heart Human Love Mindset
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
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
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

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