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. JEROMEBe at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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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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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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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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 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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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