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.
ST. JEROMEWhoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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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.
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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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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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