Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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