Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
ST. JEROMEThere are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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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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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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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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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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