No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
ST. JEROMEMalice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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.
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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 enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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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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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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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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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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