When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROMEThe friendship that can cease has never been real.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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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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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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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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