To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROMEEndeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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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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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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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 talk like angels but they live like men.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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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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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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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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?
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