There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
ST. JEROMEVirginity can be lost by a thought.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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