Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
ST. JEROMEThe enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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?
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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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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