Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
ST. JEROMEThe tired ox treads with a firmer step.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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