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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

St. Jerome

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?
ST. JEROME

Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
ST. JEROME

Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
ST. JEROME

Doubt Himself
Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROME

Practice Talk Yourself
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.
ST. JEROME

Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME

Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
ST. JEROME

Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME

Devil One Liner
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
ST. JEROME

Heart Idol Religious Vice
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
ST. JEROME

Hard Impression Mindset White
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
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Myself Praise
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
ST. JEROME

One Liner Tired Walk
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROME

Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
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.
ST. JEROME

Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
ST. JEROME

Big Life Live Ourselves Short
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME

Affection Love Money Price
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
ST. JEROME

Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROME

Humanity Move Power True
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
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.
ST. JEROME

Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROME

Act Action Talk Word
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.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
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
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
ST. JEROME

Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME

Bond Difficult Friendship

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

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