black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

St. Jerome

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
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROME

Believe Difficult Easy God Love Seek
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME

Deep Easy Fast Talk
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
ST. JEROME

Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
The 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. JEROME

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
ST. JEROME

Death Expense Himself Man Mom
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
ST. JEROME

Heart Idol Religious Vice
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.
ST. JEROME

Death Faith God Life Love Oneself Purity Service
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROME

Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROME

Equality Man Woman
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
ST. JEROME

Bad Goodness Touch Woman
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Bad Book Hands Protection Thinking Yourself
For 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. JEROME

Lose Man Money Oneself Rich
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
ST. JEROME

Animal Eat Home Sin
Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROME

Practice Talk Yourself
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
ST. JEROME

Enough Food One Liner Rich

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More St. Jerome Quotes