The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROMEThe most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
More St. Jerome Quotes
-
-
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
ST. JEROME -
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROME -
To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROME -
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROME -
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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 -
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 -
Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME -
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROME -
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROME -
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROME -
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 -
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
ST. JEROME -
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME -
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME