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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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.
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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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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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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.
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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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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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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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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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