Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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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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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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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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