He is rich enough who does not want bread.
ST. JEROMEKeep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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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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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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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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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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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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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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