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.
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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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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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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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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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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