Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROMEA vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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