Top 15 Jerome Quotes

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

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

Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

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

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

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page.

"Jerome then speaks of the unity of the sacred books. " Whatever, " he asserts, " we read in the Old Testament we find also in the Gospel; and what we read in the Gospel is deduced from the Old Testament. There is no discord between them, no disagreement.

لا تكونوا عبيداً لأموالكم

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

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.