When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROMEEither we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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