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. JEROMEAvoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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Woman is the root of all evil.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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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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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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