St. Jerome Quotes

Saint 347 - 420

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

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

Motivational, Good, Best, Rest, Better

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

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

Heart, Eyes, Mirror, Face, Mind, Secrets

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

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

Love, Love Is, Affection, Price

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. - St. Jerome

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. St. Jerome

Friendship, True Friendship, True, Never

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. - St. Jerome

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. St. Jerome

Good, Marriage, Alone, Night, Sleep, Who

The scars of others should teach us caution. - St. Jerome

The scars of others should teach us caution. St. Jerome

Scars, Teach, Others, Us, Caution

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

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

Friend, Long, Difficulty, Found, Hardly

The friendship that can cease has never been real. - St. Jerome

The friendship that can cease has never been real. St. Jerome

Friendship, Never, Real, Been, Cease

Haste is of the Devil. - St. Jerome

Haste is of the Devil. St. Jerome

Why do you not practice what you preach. - St. Jerome

Why do you not practice what you preach. St. Jerome

Practice, You, Why, Preach

Virginity can be lost by a thought. - St. Jerome

Virginity can be lost by a thought. St. Jerome

Thought, Lost, Virginity

They talk like angels but they live like men. - St. Jerome

They talk like angels but they live like men. St. Jerome

Men, Live, Talk, Angels, Like

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

Work, Devil, You, Doing, Find, Always

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way. St. Jerome

Good, I Am, Me, Effort, Sick, Rest

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield. St. Jerome

War, Friends, Dead, Survive, Dying, Gone

Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless. St. Jerome

Name, Action, Without, Meaningless, Who

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. St. Jerome

Thoughts, Fat, Never, Stomach, Fine

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. St. Jerome

Devil, You, Find, May, He, Engaged

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. St. Jerome

Life, Heart, Daughter, Book, Your, Her

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way. St. Jerome

Good, Brain, Speed, Way, Out

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord. St. Jerome

God, Loved, Sin, Lord, Ways, Who

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good. St. Jerome

Good, Evil, Enough, Doing, Us, Shall

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier. St. Jerome

God, Man, Men, Live, Present, Only

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living. St. Jerome

Father, Son, I Am, Me, Living, Away

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. St. Jerome

Beauty, Most, Adorned

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others. St. Jerome

Justice, Someone, Pleasure, Others, Than

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