Martyrdom 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. 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. JEROMEBegin now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROMEIgnorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
ST. JEROMEHonest speech does not seek secret places.
ST. JEROMEHaste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROMEInstead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
ST. JEROMELet us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
ST. JEROMEThe enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
ST. JEROMEVanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
ST. JEROMEWe need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
ST. JEROMEThank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
ST. JEROMEMatrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROMETrue friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
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.
ST. JEROMEWhen the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROMEWe must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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