Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROMEVanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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.
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If 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.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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