St. Jerome
St. Jerome
Jeromewas a presbyter, confessor, theologian and historian. He was the son of Eusebius, born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia, then part of northeastern Italy. He is best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin, and his commentaries on the Gospels. His list of writings is extensive...
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purple mind wool
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
mind theme small-minds
Small minds can never handle great themes.
character mistress dresses
Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
dinner clergymen contempt
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
play knowing keys
Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.
sacrifice ethics given
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.
reflection enemy pace
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.
love soul mind
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
order baptism trying
Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.
saying-less soul devil
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.
dignity empty stomach
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
catholic devil haste
Haste is of the Devil.
religious giving novelty
Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.
scandal tongue one-love
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.