It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
ST. JEROMEMusic 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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 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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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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