Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROMEThe 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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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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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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