Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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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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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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