Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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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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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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