Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROMEVirginity can be lost by a thought.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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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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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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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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