Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROMEWe must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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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?
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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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 tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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