They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROMEEither we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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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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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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