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?
ST. JEROMEThe face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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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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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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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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