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Honest speech does not seek secret places.

St. Jerome

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
ST. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME

Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
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.
ST. JEROME

Happiness Learning Love Tongue
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
ST. JEROME

Doubt Himself
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROME

Civilization Man Suffering
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
ST. JEROME

Big Life Live Ourselves Short
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME

Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROME

Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
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.
ST. JEROME

Alive Color Emotion Expression Feeling Music Myself Voice
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
ST. JEROME

Devil Man Scripture Worst
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROME

Himself Religious Soul Teaching
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROME

Enemy Photograph Reflection
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
ST. JEROME

Drink Enough Fear Reach Scripture
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.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
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.
ST. JEROME

Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME

Bond Difficult Friendship

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