When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROMECatch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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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