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.
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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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