162 Quotes by St. Jerome

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    When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself.

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    The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.

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    Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.

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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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    We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

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    Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.

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    The best advice I can give you is this. Church tradition – especially when they do not run counter to the Faith – are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down.

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    Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.

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    Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.

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