Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROMEMartyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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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 man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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 most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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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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