Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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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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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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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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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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