The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
ST. JEROMEIgnorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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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.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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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.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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