We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROMEStrictly 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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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.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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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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