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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.

St. Jerome

Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROME

Practice Talk Yourself
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROME

Change Death Deep Forever Human Ourselves
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROME

Marriage Myself Praise
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
ST. JEROME

Animal Eat Home Sin
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
ST. JEROME

Devil Man Scripture Worst
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Fine Stomach Thinking
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.
ST. JEROME

Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
ST. JEROME

One Liner Tired Walk
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROME

Bad Goodness Touch Woman
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. JEROME

Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
ST. JEROME

Enough Food One Liner Rich
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROME

Equality Man Woman
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME

Devil Employment Kind Work
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
ST. JEROME

God Ignorance Religion Scripture
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROME

Evil Happiness Truth Wait
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.
ST. JEROME

Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME

Friendship Reality
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROME

Enemy Photograph Reflection
Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME

Devil One Liner
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
ST. JEROME

Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME

Afraid Alone Goodness Marriage Night
Love knows nothing of order.
ST. JEROME

Love One Liner Order
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
ST. JEROME

Happiness Learning Love Tongue
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROME

Man Religious Scripture
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.
ST. JEROME

Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROME

Himself Religious Soul Teaching
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
ST. JEROME

Doubt Himself

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