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.
ST. JEROMEWhy do you not practise what you preach.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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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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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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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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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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