Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROMEHonest speech does not seek secret places.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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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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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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Love knows nothing of order.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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