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. JEROMEWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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?
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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.
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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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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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