St. Jerome Quotes - Page 5

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.

Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa, or that Bethlehem would daily receive noble Romans, distinguished ladies, brought up in wealth and now reduced to beggary? I cannot help them all, but I grieve and weep with them, and am completely absorbed in the duties which charity imposes on me. I have put aside my commentary on Ezekiel and almost all study. For today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds; instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.

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

Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.

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

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.