Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROMEWhen we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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