Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROMEThe most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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