So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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More St. Jerome Quotes
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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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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Woman is the root of all evil.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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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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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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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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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