They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROMEWhoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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.
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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 it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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