Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROMEMatrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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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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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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