Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROMEMake knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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