True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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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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