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.
ST. JEROMEAnd 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.
ST. JEROMEWoman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROMETrue friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROMEVirginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROMEThe most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROMEIgnorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
ST. JEROMEIt is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
ST. JEROMEEvery day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROMELet us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROMEA man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROMEAvoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROMEWhen we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROMEIt is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
ST. JEROMESeek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
ST. JEROMETo read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROMEMarriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
ST. JEROME