Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROMESo 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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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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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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