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.
ST. JEROMEPreferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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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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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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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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