A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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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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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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