Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROMETo read without writing is to sleep.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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 friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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.
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