Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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