No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROMEThe 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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