A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
ST. JEROMEThe 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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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 enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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