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. JEROMEMake knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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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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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
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Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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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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Woman is the root of all evil.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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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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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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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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