Haste is of the Devil.
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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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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