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.
ST. JEROMELet your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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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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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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