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.
ST. JEROMEHe is rich enough who does not want bread.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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