Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROMEHonest speech does not seek secret places.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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