Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROMEThe 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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