If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROMEThey talk like angels but they live like men.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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