Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME
ST. JEROME
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome 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.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome The scars of others should teach us caution.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
St. JeromeSt. Jerome A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome 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.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome 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.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome 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?
St. JeromeSt. Jerome
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