Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROMELove is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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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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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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