They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROMEBe ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Even 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.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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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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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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