When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROMENo 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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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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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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Woman is the root of all evil.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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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