When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROMEEither 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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 the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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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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