Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROMESeek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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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 ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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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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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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