Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROMEAvoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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 friendship that can cease has never been real.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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 vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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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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