When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROMEWhen we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
ST. JEROMENo one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
ST. JEROMEA false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
ST. JEROMEAmong us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROMELove is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
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. JEROMEThey talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROMEThe tired ox treads with a firmer step.
ST. JEROMEThe scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROMEVirginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROMEInstead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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. JEROMEIt is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
ST. JEROMENo athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
ST. JEROMEThe friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROMEVanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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