Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROMEThey please the world most, who please Christ least.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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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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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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