Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROMEIt is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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Woman is the root of all evil.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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