St. Jerome
The friendship that can cease has never been real.Collection: Friendship
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.Collection: Motivational
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.Collection: Marriage
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.Collection: Love
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.Collection: Friendship
They talk like angels but they live like men.Collection: Men
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.Collection: War
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.Collection: Beauty
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.Collection: Bible
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.Collection: Swim
Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.Collection: Inquiry
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.Collection: Men
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.Collection: Life Is Short
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 lifeCollection: Heart
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.Collection: Scary
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.Collection: Catholic
If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.Collection: Giving
Begin now what you will be hereafter.Collection: Success
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.Collection: Angel
We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.Collection: Suffering
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.Collection: Ignorance
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?Collection: Practice
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.Collection: Men
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.Collection: Cute
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.Collection: Christian
Woman is the root of all evil.Collection: Roots
The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.Collection: Keys
Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.Collection: Wealth
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.Collection: Arrows
Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.Collection: Seasoning
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.Collection: Religious
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.Collection: Sacrifice
What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.Collection: Faults
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.Collection: Dinner
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.Collection: Men
To saints their very slumber is a prayer.Collection: Prayer
The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.Collection: Strong
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.Collection: Cases
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.Collection: Cute
Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa, or that Bethlehem would daily receive noble Romans, distinguished ladies, brought up in wealth and now reduced to beggary? I cannot help them all, but I grieve and weep with them, and am completely absorbed in the duties which charity imposes on me. I have put aside my commentary on Ezekiel and almost all study. For today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds; instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them.Collection: Daughter
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.Collection: Men
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.Collection: House
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.Collection: Tyrants
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.Collection: God
Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.Collection: Keys
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?Collection: Purple
The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.Collection: World
Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.Collection: Religious