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.
ST. JEROMEWithout doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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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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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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