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.
ST. JEROMENothing 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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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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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 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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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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