Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
ST. JEROMELove is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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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.
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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 face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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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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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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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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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