An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
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ST. JEROME Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
ST. JEROME Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously ...
ST. VINCENT A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o...
ST. JEROME I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everyt...
ST. VINCENT I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f...
ST. JEROME A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almos...
ST. VINCENT My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr...
ST. JEROME Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something...
ST. VINCENT I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.
ST. LUCIA Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo...
ST. AUGUSTINE Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.
ST. AUGUSTINE The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
ST. AUGUSTINE Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not ob...
ST. AUGUSTINE