Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROMEThey please the world most, who please Christ least.
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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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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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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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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