When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROMEWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROMELet 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. JEROMEIgnorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
ST. JEROMESo valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
ST. JEROMEThank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
ST. JEROMEWhoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
ST. JEROMEIf a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROMEBe at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROMEEither we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
ST. JEROMEMake knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROMEMarriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
ST. JEROMEThe charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
ST. JEROMENo one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROMEInstead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROMEThe face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROMEFailure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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