He is rich enough who does not want bread.
ST. JEROMEWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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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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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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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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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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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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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