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. JEROMEIf 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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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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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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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.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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