No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROMEThe friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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