Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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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 most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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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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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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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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