St. Jerome Quotes - Page 3

The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — 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; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.

We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

To read without writing is to sleep.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it, and go to Hell guilty of three crimes: murdering themselves, committing adultery against Christ, and murder against their unborn child.

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.