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.
ST. JEROMESo 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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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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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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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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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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