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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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 friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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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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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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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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The 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.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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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 tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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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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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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