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.
ST. JEROMEIgnorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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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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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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