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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

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
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
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Equality Man Woman
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
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Empty Preserve Stomach
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
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
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
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Greatness Poison
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Devil Employment Kind Work
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Humanity Move Power True
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
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Lost One Liner Thinking
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
To read without writing is to sleep.
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One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
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
Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Practice Talk Yourself
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
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
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
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
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Deep Ourselves Scars 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
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Affection Love Money Price

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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