I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROMEEverything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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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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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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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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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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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 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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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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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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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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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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