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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.

St. Jerome

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.
ST. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
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.
ST. JEROME

Book Daughter God Heart Life Yourself
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Fine Stomach Thinking
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME

Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
ST. JEROME

Greatness Poison
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.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROME

Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROME

Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME

Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROME

Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROME

Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROME

Man Religious Scripture
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROME

Care Listening Oneself Talk
To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROME

One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME

Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
ST. JEROME

Busy Devil Worth Yourself

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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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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