Jerome Quotes

Bruta quoque animalia et vagae aves, in easdem pedicas retiaque non incidunt.

even in his own house, a man cannot use his eyes without danger.

"if things which are good in themselves as being the handiwork of a good Creator are called vanity, it is because they are compared with things which are better still. For example, compared with a lamp, a lantern is good for nothing; compared with a star, a lamp does not shine at all; the brightest star pales before the moon; put the moon beside the sun, and it no longer looks bright; compare the sun with Christ, and it is darkness. " I am that I am, " God says; [ Exodus 3: 14 ]"

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

Ne hoc quidem scire quod nescias.

Neither Britain, a province fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

The fruit which is an hundredfold and that which is sixtyfold both spring from one seed,

In such haste was she and so impatient of delay that you would fancy her on the eve of her departure. As she was always ready, death could not find her unprepared.

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

For as we admire the Creator not only as the framer of heaven and earth, of sun and ocean, of elephants, camels, horses, oxen, pards, bears, and lions; but also as the maker of the most tiny creatures, ants, gnats, flies, worms, and the like, whose shapes we know better than their names, and as in all alike we revere the same creative skill; so the mind that is given to Christ shows the same earnestness in things of small as of great importance, knowing that it must render an account of every idle word.

The battering-ram of natural affection which so often shatters faith must recoil powerless from the wall of the Gospel.

<nowiki>[</nowiki>Paul<nowiki>]</nowiki> then, in the fourteenth year of Nero on the same day with Peter, was beheaded at Rome for Christ's sake and was buried in the Ostian way, the twenty-seventh year after our Lord's passion.

"he desired so to deliver them from that error as if he saw not them, but himself, entangled in it; thus truly loving his neighbour as himself, and doing to others as he would have others do to him if he required their help — a duty to the statement of which our Lord added these words, " This is the law and the prophets. " [ Matthew 7: 12 ]"

God be thanked that you are well and that the fire of faith glows in you even when you are in the midst of the devil's wiles. My greatest joy is to hear that my spiritual sons are fighting in the cause of Christ;