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. JEROMEVanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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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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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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