While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROMEWine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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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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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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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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 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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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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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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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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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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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