St. Jerome
St. Jerome
Jeromewas a presbyter, confessor, theologian and historian. He was the son of Eusebius, born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia, then part of northeastern Italy. He is best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin, and his commentaries on the Gospels. His list of writings is extensive...
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laziness neglect easier
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
saying-less soul devil
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.
sacrifice ethics given
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.
dignity empty stomach
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
friendship war dying
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
angel ideas giving
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.
purple mind wool
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
brain purses way
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
order knows
Love knows nothing of order.
practice practice-what-you-preach
Why do you not practice what you preach.
heaven earth virginity
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
theft results committed
[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.
athlete sweat brows
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
angel men
They talk like angels but they live like men.