No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROMEEven 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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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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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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