When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROMEA vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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