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?
ST. JEROMENo one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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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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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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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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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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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