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.
ST. JEROMEMarriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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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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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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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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