Love knows nothing of order.
ST. JEROMEThe tired ox treads with a firmer step.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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 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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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