SJ
St. Jerome
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Quotes by St. Jerome
St. Jerome's insights on:

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To be a Christian is a great thing, not merely to seem one. And somehow or other those please the world most who please Christ least.

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. The friendship that can cease has never been real.

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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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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

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

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I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.
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