When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROMEWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Haste is of the Devil.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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