To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROMEWe must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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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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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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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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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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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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