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ST. JEROMEWithout doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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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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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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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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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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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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