The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME
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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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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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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If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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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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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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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.
ST. JEROME