Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROMEMatrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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 is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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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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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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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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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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