Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROMEIf a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
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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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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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And 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.
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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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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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