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.
ST. JEROMEA man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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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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Love knows nothing of order.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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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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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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So 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.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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