Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
ST. JEROMEAnd as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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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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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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Love knows nothing of order.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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