Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROMEWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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