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. JEROMEThey talk like angels but they live like men.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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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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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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