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. JEROMEPreferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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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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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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