A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROMEMartyrdom 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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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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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