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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More St. Jerome Quotes
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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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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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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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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