Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROMEAvoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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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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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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