No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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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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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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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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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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