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.
ST. JEROMEIf it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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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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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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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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