I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROMETrue friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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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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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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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