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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

St. Jerome

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

Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME

Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Religious Sacred Vice
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROME

Bad Goodness Touch Woman
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
ST. JEROME

Happiness Learning Love Tongue
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME

Bond Difficult Friendship
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
ST. JEROME

Big Life Live Ourselves Short
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME

Friendship Thinking True
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
ST. JEROME

Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROME

Civilization Man Suffering
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. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
ST. JEROME

Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious
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.
ST. JEROME

Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROME

Care Listening Oneself Talk
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROME

Enemy Photograph Reflection
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROME

Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

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