A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROMEEven while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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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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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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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