If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROMEWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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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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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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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.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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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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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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