Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROMEWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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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Love knows nothing of order.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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