While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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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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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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