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.
ST. JEROMEThe friendship that can cease has never been real.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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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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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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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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