There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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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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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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