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They please the world most, who please Christ least.

St. Jerome

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
Woman is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner Root Woman
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Heaven Learning Seek Truth
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
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
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.
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Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
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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Action Practice Talk Word 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.
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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
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Bad Goodness Touch Woman

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

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