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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

St. Jerome

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

Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME

Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME

Deep Easy Fast Talk
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROME

Call Earth Heaven Learning
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
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
ST. JEROME

Enough Food One Liner Rich
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
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
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
ST. JEROME

Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
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
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROME

Himself Religious Soul Teaching
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
ST. JEROME

Greatness Poison
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROME

Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROME

Man Religious Scripture
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
ST. JEROME

Empty Preserve Stomach

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