The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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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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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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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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