The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROMEI praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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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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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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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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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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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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