To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROMEBegin now what you will be hereafter.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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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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