St. Jerome Quotes
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Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
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[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.
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What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.
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So 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.
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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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Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.
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Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it, and go to Hell guilty of three crimes: murdering themselves, committing adultery against Christ, and murder against their unborn child.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, 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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Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa, or that Bethlehem would daily receive noble Romans, distinguished ladies, brought up in wealth and now reduced to beggary? I cannot help them all, but I grieve and weep with them, and am completely absorbed in the duties which charity imposes on me. I have put aside my commentary on Ezekiel and almost all study. For today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds; instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them.
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The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
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The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.
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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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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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