They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROMEWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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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.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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