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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

St. Jerome

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROME

Care Listening Oneself Talk
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
ST. JEROME

Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
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.
ST. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
ST. JEROME

Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROME

Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROME

Humanity Move Power True
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME

Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME

Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
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.
ST. JEROME

Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROME

Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROME

Bad Goodness Touch Woman
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
ST. JEROME

Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME

Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME

Affection Love Money Price
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
ST. JEROME

Earth Heaven Marriage Virgin
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROME

Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

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