Woman is the root of all evil.
ST. JEROMEVanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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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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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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