Love knows nothing of order.
ST. JEROMEWhy do you not practise what you preach.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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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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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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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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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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