Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
ST. JEROMEStrictly 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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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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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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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