Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROMEWoman is the root of all evil.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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