True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROMETrue friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROMEFor the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
ST. JEROMEWe must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROMESeek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
ST. JEROMEEarly impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
ST. JEROMEFailure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
ST. JEROMEIf 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.
ST. JEROMEStrictly 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.
ST. JEROMEBegin now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROMEMusic to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
ST. JEROMEIf there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROMEVirginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROMEWoman is the root of all evil.
ST. JEROMEThe enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROMENo one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
ST. JEROMEThe 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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