It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
ST. JEROMEBe ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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 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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Haste is of the Devil.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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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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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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