Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROMEIf there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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.
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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.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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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.
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