Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROMENothing 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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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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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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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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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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