When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROMEEvery day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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 most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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