While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROMELet us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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