To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROMEEverything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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