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?
ST. JEROMEMusic 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity 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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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