Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROMEWhen I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Love knows nothing of order.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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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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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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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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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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And 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.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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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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