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. JEROMEFor 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
-
-
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROME -
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
ST. JEROME -
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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 -
Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME -
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
ST. JEROME -
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
ST. JEROME -
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME -
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
ST. JEROME -
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROME -
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROME -
Love knows nothing of order.
ST. JEROME -
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
ST. JEROME -
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 -
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME