For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
ST. JEROMEA fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Haste is of the Devil.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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