Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROMELove is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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