Jerome Quotes

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

[She] personally tended the unhappy and impoverished victims of hunger and disease. I have often seen her washing wounds which others – even men – could hardly bear to look at ... She founded a hospital and gathered there the sufferers from the streets, and gave them all the attention of a nurse... How often she carried home, on her shoulders, the dirty and poor who were plagued with epilepsy! How she washed the pus from sores which others could not even behold.

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.

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

nothing is so displeasing to God as an impenitent heart. Impenitence is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.

"They which run in a race run all, but one receives the crown. " But of us on the other hand it is said: " So run that you may obtain. " [ 1 Corinthians 9: 24 ] Our master of the games is not grudging; he does not give the palm to one and disgrace another. His wish is that all his athletes may alike win garlands.

Si rivus tenuiter fluit, non est alvei culpa, sed fontis.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

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

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

Facile contemnitur clericus, qui saepe vocatus ad prandium, ire non recusat.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

"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 ]"

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