Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROMEMake knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
ST. JEROMEThey please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROMEWe must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
ST. JEROMENothing 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. JEROMEKeep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROMEWhoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
ST. JEROMEBe ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROMEWe need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
ST. JEROMEStrictly 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. JEROMEThank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
ST. JEROMEAvoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
ST. JEROMEWithout doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
ST. JEROMEMalice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
ST. JEROMENo athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
ST. JEROMEThe face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROMEMartyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
ST. JEROME