Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME
The 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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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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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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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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Love knows nothing of order.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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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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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
ST. JEROME