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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

St. Jerome

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
ST. JEROME

Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
ST. JEROME

Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
ST. JEROME

Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
ST. JEROME

Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
Strictly 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. JEROME

Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME

Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
ST. JEROME

Animal Eat Home Sin
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
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.
ST. JEROME

Alive Color Emotion Expression Feeling Music Myself Voice
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME

Deep Easy Fast Talk
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME

Bond Difficult Friendship
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
ST. JEROME

Ignorance Worst Yourself
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROME

Evil Happiness Truth Wait
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.
ST. JEROME

Battle Death Engagement Field Friendship Survive War
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROME

Call Earth Heaven Learning

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