Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
ST. JEROMEA friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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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 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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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