It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
ST. JEROMEThe face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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