Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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