Begin now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROMEThey please the world most, who please Christ least.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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.
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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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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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