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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.

St. Jerome

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME

Deep Easy Fast Talk
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROME

Himself Religious Soul Teaching
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROME

Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROME

Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
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?
ST. JEROME

Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROME

Enemy Photograph Reflection
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
ST. JEROME

Heaven Learning Seek Truth
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.
ST. JEROME

Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROME

Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Myself Praise
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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God Ignorance Religion Scripture
Love knows nothing of order.
ST. JEROME

Love One Liner Order
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
ST. JEROME

Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
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.
ST. JEROME

Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store

It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.

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