Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROMEFor 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for 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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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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