Jerome Quotes

Nemo invito auditori libenter refert. Sagitta in lapidem nunquam figitur, interdum resiliens percutit dirigentem.

glory follows virtue as its shadow; and deserting those who seek it, it seeks those who despise it.

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.

Privilegia paucorum non faciunt legem.

I do not ask for grace of style, I look for purity of soul: for with Christians it is the greatest of solecisms and of vices of style to introduce anything base either in word or action.

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

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

human language is inadequate to the divine praise,

Why should I strive to swim against the current, and not rather ask pardon?

It is not the sheep only who abide in the Church.

Plenus venter facile de ieiuniis disputat.

Ita se natura habet, ut amara sit veritas, blanda vitia existimentur.

Non digne Graeca in Latinum transfero: aut Graecos lege (si ejusdem linguae habes scientiam); aut si tantum Latinus es, noli de gratuito munere judicare, et, ut vulgare proverbium est: equi dentes inspicere donati.