Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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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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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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