We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
ST. JEROMEThe 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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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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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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