When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROMEIf there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
More St. Jerome Quotes
-
-
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROME -
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME -
Even 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. JEROME -
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
ST. JEROME -
Being 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. JEROME -
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
ST. JEROME -
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROME -
It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
ST. JEROME -
Let 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. JEROME -
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 -
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROME -
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME -
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROME -
No 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. JEROME -
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROME