Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
ST. JEROMELet us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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