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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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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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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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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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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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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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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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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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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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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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He is rich enough who does not want bread.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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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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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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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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