Begin now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROMEThank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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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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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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Either 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.
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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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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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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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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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