True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROMEDo 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?
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Even 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.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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