black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

St. Jerome

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROME

Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROME

Practice Talk Yourself
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROME

Deep God Prayer Reading Spiritual Talk
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROME

Equality Man Woman
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
ST. JEROME

Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME

Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROME

Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
ST. JEROME

Heart Idol Religious Vice
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROME

Dangerous Devil Road Woman Women Empowerment
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROME

Deep Mistake Origin Water
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
ST. JEROME

Ignorance Worst Yourself
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
ST. JEROME

Fall Hypocrisy Mistake Sin
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
ST. JEROME

Blood Endurance Growth Rage Religious
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
ST. JEROME

Empty Preserve Stomach
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROME

Call Earth Heaven Learning
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
ST. JEROME

Devil Man Scripture Worst

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More St. Jerome Quotes