Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
ST. JEROMEWhen we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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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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