Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROMETo read without writing is to sleep.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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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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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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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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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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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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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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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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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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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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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