St Jerome Quotes

Virginity can be lost by a thought.
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
Why do you not practice what you preach.
I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.
I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.
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