No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROMENo one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROMEWe must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROMEIt 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.
ST. JEROMEWine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
ST. JEROMEEither 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.
ST. JEROMEWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROMELove is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROMEMarriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
ST. JEROMEAlways be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
ST. JEROMEIf it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROMEMatrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROMEThe 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.
ST. JEROMEMusic 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.
ST. JEROMEA vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
ST. JEROMELove knows nothing of order.
ST. JEROMEWhen I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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