Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
ST. JEROMEThe scars of others should teach us caution.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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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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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to 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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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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