For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
ST. JEROMEKeep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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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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Haste is of the Devil.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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