Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
ST. JEROMEMatrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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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.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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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 us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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