To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROMEEndeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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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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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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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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