Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries. St. Jerome More Quotes by St. Jerome More Quotes From St. Jerome Quick enough, if good enough. St. Jerome good-enough haste enough Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it. St. Jerome wish work love The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures. St. Jerome pace reflection enemy The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another. St. Jerome judging law religion Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men. St. Jerome sexism inequality men It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love. St. Jerome neglect easier laziness What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way. St. Jerome purses brain way It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection. St. Jerome soul mind love My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order. St. Jerome confused confusion order [O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors. St. Jerome theft results committed Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best. St. Jerome rest better best good motivational 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 i-am good me effort It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good. St. Jerome doing good enough evil 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 i-am me father son 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 how someone pleasure justice 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 loved sin lord god 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 live man god men Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless. St. Jerome without name who action Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. St. Jerome your will law action
