Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROMEEverything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
More St. Jerome Quotes
-
-
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROME -
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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 -
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
ST. JEROME -
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROME -
We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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 -
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.
ST. JEROME -
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROME -
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
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 -
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
ST. JEROME -
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROME -
Either 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. JEROME -
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
ST. JEROME