St. Jerome Quotes

St. Jerome
Saint
Born: 347
Died: 420
Devil God Good Never Who You
Related authors: Francis of Assisi Joan of Arc Mother Teresa Pope John Paul II Saint Ambrose Saint Augustine Saint Ignatius Saint Teresa of Avila
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. St. Jerome
Love Love Is Affection Purchased Price
The friendship that can cease has never been real. St. Jerome
Friendship Never Real Been Cease
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. St. Jerome
Friendship True Friendship Ought Never Conceal True Thinks
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 Me Will Rest Sheep Sick Back Unless Way Carries Fold Give Rising Takes Steps Feet Like Am Shepherd His Falter Very Effort Shoulders Flock
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. St. Jerome
Long Difficulty Sought Friend Found Hardly Kept
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 Other Others Virtues Pleases Pleasure Possesses Possessing Someone Give Instead Greater Does How Than May Them Ask Who Gratify
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 Gone Our Seventy Battlefield Over Like Dead Friends Survive Going Being Dying Engaged Amongst
They talk like angels but they live like men. St. Jerome
Men Live Angels Like Talk
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. St. Jerome
Work You Devil Kind Find Some Employed Always Doing May Keep
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
Me Son Father Living Entrusted Knees Put Am Fallen Begun Former Prodigal Who Away Wasted Portion
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good. St. Jerome
Good Evil Enough Unless Restrain Shall Also Doing Us
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. St. Jerome
You Devil Find He Calls Occupied May Whenever Engaged Ever
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. St. Jerome
Beauty Adorned Most
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 Ways Those Abandon Abhorrence Sin Lord Persevere Loved Held Who
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. St. Jerome
Thoughts Fine Never Stomach Breeds Fat
Virginity can be lost by a thought. St. Jerome
Thought Lost Virginity
Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless. St. Jerome
Action Attached Name Without Meaningless Who
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law. St. Jerome
Natural Law Will Become Action General Through Were Maxim Act Your

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