The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROMELove is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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