No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROMEThe face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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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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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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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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Love knows nothing of order.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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