St. Jerome Quotes

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• Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

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  Bible, Ignorance, Sacred Scripture

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• When we pray we speak to God;
  but when we read, God speaks to us.

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  Praying, Speak

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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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  Inquiry, Scripture, Christianity

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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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  Swim, Scripture, Drink

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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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  Heaven, Catholic, Soul

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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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  Grants, Offers, Asks

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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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  Men, Devil, Scripture

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• There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

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  Life Is Short, Things In Life, Bigger

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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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  Scary, Devil, Scorpions

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• Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

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  Catholic, Devil, May

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• Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

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• The friendship that can cease has never been real.

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  Friendship, Real, Losing Friends

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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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  Angel, Race, Heaven

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• The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

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  Keys, Heaven, Church

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• Begin now what you will be hereafter.

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  Success, Excellence, Classroom

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• Love knows nothing of order.

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  Order, Knows

  St. Jerome “The Principal Works of St. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Ignorant, Stills

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.207, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

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  Funny Friendship, Cute Friendship, Long

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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  Song, Ideas, Voice

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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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  Giving, Forever, Trials

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• We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

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  Suffering, Christ, Easy

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• If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.

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  Holy Eucharist, Heaven, Trying

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• The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

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  Cute, Love You, Heart

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• For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

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  Grieving, Heaven, Desire

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• To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.

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  Decision, Form, Categories

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