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. 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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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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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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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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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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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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.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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