If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROMEPreferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Haste is of the Devil.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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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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Love knows nothing of order.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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