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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

St. Jerome

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME

Friendship Thinking True
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROME

Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROME

Call Earth Heaven Learning
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME

Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
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.
ST. JEROME

Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME

Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
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.
ST. JEROME

Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
ST. JEROME

God Ignorance Religion Scripture
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROME

Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
ST. JEROME

Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROME

Act Action Talk Word
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
ST. JEROME

Devil Man Scripture Worst
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
ST. JEROME

Death Expense Himself Man Mom
Love knows nothing of order.
ST. JEROME

Love One Liner Order
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME

Bond Difficult Friendship
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROME

Humanity Move Power True

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

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