Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROMENo one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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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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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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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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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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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