If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROMEA vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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 enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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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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