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.
ST. JEROMEThe friendship that can cease has never been real.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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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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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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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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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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