Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
ST. JEROMEThe scars of others should teach us caution.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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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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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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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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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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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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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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