The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROMEThe enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROMECatch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROMEIf there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROMEFor all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
ST. JEROMEAnd as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
ST. JEROMEInstead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROMENo athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
ST. JEROMEBegin now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROMELove knows nothing of order.
ST. JEROMEThe tired ox treads with a firmer step.
ST. JEROMEThe Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
ST. JEROMEHe is rich enough who does not want bread.
ST. JEROMEMalice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
ST. JEROMEWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROMELet us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROMEEarly impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
ST. JEROME