They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROMEIgnorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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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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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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