Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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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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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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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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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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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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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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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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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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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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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