Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROMEBeing 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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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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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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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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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