The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROMEFailure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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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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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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