Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROMELove knows nothing of order.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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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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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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If 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.
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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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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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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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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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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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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