Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROMEWoman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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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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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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 a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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