The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROMEThe most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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 our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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The 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.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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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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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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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