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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.

St. Jerome

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Myself Praise
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROME

Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROME

Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME

Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
ST. JEROME

Doubt Himself
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
ST. JEROME

Devil Man Scripture Worst
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROME

Evil Happiness Truth Wait
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROME

Deep Mistake Origin Water
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROME

Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROME

Call Earth Heaven Learning
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
ST. JEROME

Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
ST. JEROME

Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Fine Stomach Thinking
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROME

Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
ST. JEROME

Animal Eat Home Sin

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