When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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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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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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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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