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.

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.

Eyes, Mirror, Heart, Face, Mind, Secrets

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.

Good, Alone, Marriage, Night, Sleep, Who

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

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

Love, Love Is, Price, Affection

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Friendship, True Friendship, True, Never

Haste is of the Devil. - St. Jerome

Haste is of the Devil.

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Friendship, Never, Real, Been, Cease

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

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

Friend, Long, Difficulty, Found, Hardly

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

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Scars, Teach, Us, Others, Caution

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

Work, Devil, You, Always, Doing, Find

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

Why do you not practice what you preach.

You, Practice, Why, Preach

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Thoughts, Fat, Never, Stomach, Fine

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

Good, Evil, Enough, Doing, Us, Shall

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

Name, Action, Without, Who, Meaningless

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

Good, Brain, Speed, Way, Out

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

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Thought, Lost, Virginity

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

They talk like angels but they live like men.

Men, Live, Talk, Angels, Like

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.

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.

War, Survive, Friends, Dead, Dying, Gone

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.

God, Man, Men, Live, Present, Only

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.

Life, Daughter, Heart, Book, Your, Her

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Law, Action, Will, Your, Natural, Become

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.

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

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.

Justice, Someone, Pleasure, Others, Than

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

Devil, You, Find, May, He, Engaged

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.

God, Loved, Sin, Lord, Who, Ways

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