Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROMEWhen we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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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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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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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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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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