Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts. St. Jerome More Quotes by St. Jerome More Quotes From St. Jerome The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. St. Jerome love-you heart cute Love knows nothing of order. St. Jerome knows order If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven. St. Jerome holy-eucharist trying heaven 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 dying friendship war Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven St. Jerome earth heaven Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business. St. Jerome plague clergymen men To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize. St. Jerome categories form decision Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life St. Jerome dying doe heart Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy. St. Jerome christian men boys Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us. St. Jerome favors catholic doubt Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal. St. Jerome eternal fancy dying Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children. St. Jerome pain religious children 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. St. Jerome desire grieving heaven The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it. St. Jerome church christian blood They please the world most, who please Christ least. St. Jerome please world christ A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. St. Jerome fats saint exercise 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. St. Jerome paradise married fall Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world. St. Jerome thank-god suffering world 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. St. Jerome law running giving 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. St. Jerome abortion poison children
