Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROMEA false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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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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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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