St. Jerome
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.Collection: Athlete
It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.Collection: Good Life
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.Collection: Love
Small minds can never handle great themes.Collection: Mind
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.Collection: Play
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.Collection: God
Virginity can be lost by a thought.Collection: Sex
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.Collection: Purses
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.Collection: Daughter
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.Collection: Dignity
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.Collection: Scandal
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.Collection: Sin
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.Collection: Men
He is rich enough who does not want bread.Collection: Food
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.Collection: Tired
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!Collection: Catholic
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.Collection: Home
Haste is of the Devil.Collection: Catholic
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.Collection: Order
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.Collection: Two
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.Collection: Waiting
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.Collection: Catholic
Why do you not practise what you preach.Collection: Practice
Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.Collection: Devil
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.Collection: Fall
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.Collection: Water
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.Collection: Love
[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.Collection: Results
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.Collection: Moving
The scars of others should teach us caution.Collection: Love
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.Collection: Heart
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.Collection: Evil
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.Collection: Reflection
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the youngCollection: Wine
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.Collection: Heaven
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.Collection: Grieving
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.Collection: Meaningful
To read without writing is to sleep.Collection: Writing
To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.Collection: Scripture
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.Collection: Heaven
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.Collection: Exercise
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.Collection: Marriage
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.Collection: Devil
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.Collection: Fall
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.Collection: Athlete
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.Collection: Children
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.Collection: Devil
To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.Collection: Decision
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.Collection: Character