Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROMEStrictly 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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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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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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