A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROMESo 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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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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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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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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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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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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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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