The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
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ST. JEROME Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
ST. JEROME Quick enough, if good enough.
ST. JEROME Never look a gift horse in the mouth!
ST. JEROME When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting
ST. JEROME Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother!
ST. JEROME Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
ST. JEROME Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.
ST. BASIL The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD ST. God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
ST. AUGUSTINE Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
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ST. BONAVENTURE Nothing can work me damage except myself.
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ST. CYPRIAN Just suppose members of our churches were voted on, like the members of certain civic clubs. Suppose...
ST. CYPRIAN One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always co...
ST. VINCENT Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
ST. JEROME I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a...
ST. VINCENT Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive...
ST. BASIL Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
OLIVER ST. JOHN If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
OLIVER ST. JOHN And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time...
LARA ST. JOHN Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to...
LARA ST. JOHN Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
LARA ST. JOHN I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing e...
LARA ST. JOHN