Jerome Quotes

Caritas non potest conparari; dilectio pretium non habet.

As long as you are at home make your cell your paradise, gather there the varied fruits of scripture, let this be your favourite companion, and take its precepts to your heart.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

whether the victory be won in peace or in war, God gives the same reward to those who win it.

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

"The words of Plato in the third book of the Republic are as follows: " Truth, said Socrates, is to be specially cultivated.

The best advice I can give you is this. Church tradition - especially when they do not run counter to the Faith - are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down.

Interdum animus dominarum ex ancillarum habitu iudicatur.

For it is one thing to start a problem and another to expound what is already proved. The first calls for a disputant, the second for a teacher.

I could not pray, if I did not believe; but if I really believed, I should cleanse that heart of mine with which God is seen, I should beat my hands upon my breast, the tears would stream down my cheeks, my body would shudder, my face grow pale, I should lie at my Lord's feet, weep over them, and wipe them with my hair, I should cling to the cross and not let go my hold until I obtained mercy. But, as it is, frequently in my prayers I am either walking in the arcades, or calculating my interest, or am carried away by base thoughts, so as to be occupied with things the mere mention of which makes me blush.

And although to the strong he has pointed out the prize of their high calling, [ Philippians 3: 14 ] yet he suffers none to faint by the way; [ Matthew 15: 32 ] while he applauds those who lead the van, he does not despise those who bring up the rear.

It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est.

Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.

they will learn how much better it is, when one is uninformed, to put questions than to make assertions;

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.