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.
ST. JEROMEFor the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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?
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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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.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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