When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROMEA man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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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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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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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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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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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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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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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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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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