They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROME
Woman is the root of all evil.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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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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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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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