If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROMEAvoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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