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.
ST. JEROMEWe must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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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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Love knows nothing of order.
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