A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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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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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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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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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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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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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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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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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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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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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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