We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROME
Either 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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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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.
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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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