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

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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
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
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Deep Mistake Origin Water
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
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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One Liner Tired Walk
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
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Action Beginning Inspirational Motivational Yourself
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Enemy Photograph Reflection
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
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Enough Food One Liner Rich
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Friendship Reality
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.
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End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage Myself Praise
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Civilization Man Suffering
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
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Devil Man Scripture Worst
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Friendship Thinking True
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
Haste is of the Devil.
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Devil One Liner
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Happiness Learning Love Tongue
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin

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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