Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROMEWhoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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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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