A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROMEThe tired ox treads with a firmer step.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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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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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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