Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROMEIt is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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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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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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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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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