black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

St. Jerome

Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROME

Practice Talk Yourself
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
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME

Devil Employment Kind Work
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME

Busy Devil Yourself
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
ST. JEROME

Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME

Heaven Peace Soul Yourself
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROME

Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROME

Avoid Business Man Sick Yourself
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROME

Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
ST. JEROME

Hate Myself Thankful World Worth
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
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
ST. JEROME

Hard Impression Mindset White
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME

Catch Fly Improvement Moments Transience
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME

Bond Difficult Friendship
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME

Friendship Thinking True
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

End Home Mistake Ourselves Talk

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More St. Jerome Quotes