They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROMENo one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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