No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROMEIgnorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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 face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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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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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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