More from St. Jerome
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. JeromeSt. Jerome 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.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome The friendship that can cease has never been real.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome 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.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Haste is of the Devil.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome 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.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Virginity can be lost by a thought.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome They please the world most, who please Christ least.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome
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