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. JEROMELove is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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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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Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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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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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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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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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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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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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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