Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROMEThe enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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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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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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