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. JEROMEIf a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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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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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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