I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROMEWhoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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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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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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