Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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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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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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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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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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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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It 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.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
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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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