When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROMEBegin now what you will be hereafter.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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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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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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