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Anchorite Inspirational Quotes (95)

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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome
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To say that God turns away from the sinful is like saying that the sun hides from the blind.
Anthony the Great
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Quick enough, if good enough.
St. Jerome
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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.
St. Jerome
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
St. Jerome
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
St. Jerome
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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.
St. Jerome
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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.
St. Jerome
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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.
St. Jerome
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.
St. Jerome
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
St. Jerome
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
St. Jerome
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This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.
Anthony the Great
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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.
St. Jerome
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Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
St. Jerome
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Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
St. Jerome
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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.
St. Jerome
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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.
St. Jerome
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When we pray we speak to God but when we read, God speaks to us.
St. Jerome
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It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
St. Jerome
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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.
St. Jerome
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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?
St. Jerome
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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.
St. Jerome
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