A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
ST. JEROMENo created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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