They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROMEAnd as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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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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