While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROMEThe enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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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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