Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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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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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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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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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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