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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

St. Jerome

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME

Bond Difficult Friendship
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.
ST. JEROME

Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
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.
ST. JEROME

Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
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.
ST. JEROME

Face Faith Forever Peace Time World Yourself
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME

Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROME

Act Action Talk Word
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROME

Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
ST. JEROME

Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROME

Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
Woman is the root of all evil.
ST. JEROME

Evil One Liner Root Woman
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.
ST. JEROME

Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROME

One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
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.
ST. JEROME

Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
ST. JEROME

Busy Devil Worth Yourself
Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROME

Practice Talk Yourself

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