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.
ST. JEROMEMake knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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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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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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