Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
ST. JEROMEEven while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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