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.
ST. JEROMEIgnorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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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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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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