No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
ST. JEROMEFor the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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