Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
ST. JEROMEWoman is the root of all evil.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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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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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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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.
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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.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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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.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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