Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROMEBeing over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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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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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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