There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
ST. JEROMEEndeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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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.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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