No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROMETo read without writing is to sleep.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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 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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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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