While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROMEThe friendship that can cease has never been real.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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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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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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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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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