Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
ST. JEROME
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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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 friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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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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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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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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME