Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROMEEvery day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROMEAmong us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROMEThe most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROMEBeing over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
ST. JEROMEEven while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
ST. JEROMESeek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
ST. JEROMEInstead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROMEFor the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
ST. JEROMEIf then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
ST. JEROMEA friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROMEVanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROMEBegin now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROMEBe ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROMENo one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
ST. JEROMELove is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROMECatch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME