black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

St. Jerome

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROME

Humanity Move Power True
Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROME

Practice Talk Yourself
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
ST. JEROME

Civilization Man Suffering
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

Children Compassionate Heart Live Man Mom Pain Suffering World
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

Death Expense Himself Man Mom
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME

Eyes Face Heart Mindset Secret Talk
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROME

Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME

Friendship Reality
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
ST. JEROME

Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
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

Knowledge Live Love Meditation Scripture Yourself
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
ST. JEROME

Deep Mistake Origin Water
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROME

Enemy Photograph Reflection
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME

Friendship Thinking True
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROME

Act Action Talk Word
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROME

Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Fine Stomach Thinking
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
ST. JEROME

Enough Food One Liner Rich
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?
ST. JEROME

Action Practice Talk Word Yourself
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
ST. JEROME

Care Listening Oneself Talk
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME

Busy Devil Yourself
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME

Angel Live Man One Liner Talk
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME

Lost One Liner Thinking
The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME

Deep Ourselves Scars Teaching
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
ST. JEROME

Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
ST. JEROME

God Ignorance Religion Scripture
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

Beginning Offering Ourselves Seek
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
ST. JEROME

Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More St. Jerome Quotes