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?
ST. JEROMEAvoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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