Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
ST. JEROMENo 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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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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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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