Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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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Woman is the root of all evil.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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 all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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