Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
ST. JEROMEMalice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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 charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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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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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Music 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.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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