There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
ST. JEROMEThere are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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. JEROMEFor the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
ST. JEROMEThe 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. JEROMEEvery day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROMELove is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROMEWithout doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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. JEROMEWoman is the root of all evil.
ST. JEROMEBegin now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROMEThe Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
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. JEROMEMarriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
ST. JEROMEIt 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. JEROMEPreferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROMEWhy do you not practise what you preach.
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