When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROMEWhen we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROMEA man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROMEMarriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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. JEROMEThe most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROMEIf there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROMEBe ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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. 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. JEROMEAnd as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
ST. JEROMETrue friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROMEEvery day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROMECatch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROMEWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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. JEROMEIt is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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