Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to… — St. Jerome
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?"
In the original Latin
Non confundant opera tua sermonem tuum: ne cum in Ecclesia loqueris, tacitus quilibet respondeat, cur ergo haec quae dicis, ipse non facis?
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Saint Jerome. "Letter LII." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 7.
Original citation
Saint Jerome. Letter to Nepotian. c. 394, sect. 7.
