Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROMEThe tired ox treads with a firmer step.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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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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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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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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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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