Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROMEA fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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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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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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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 worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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