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.
ST. JEROMEA man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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