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. JEROMELove is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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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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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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.
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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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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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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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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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