When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROMETrue friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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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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