Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
ST. JEROMEBe at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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