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. JEROMEWoman is the root of all evil.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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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.
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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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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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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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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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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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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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