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. JEROMEFor the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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