St. Jerome
The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.Collection: Jesus
Love knows nothing of order.Collection: Order
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.Collection: Dying
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.Collection: Suffering
Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.Collection: Religious
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.Collection: Saying Less
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.Collection: Catholic
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.Collection: Funny Friendship
Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.Collection: Christian
They please the world most, who please Christ least.Collection: World
If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.Collection: Holy Eucharist
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.Collection: Song
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.Collection: Men
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.Collection: Jesus
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.Collection: Failure
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.Collection: Food
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.Collection: Heart
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.Collection: Book
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.Collection: Mother
The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.Collection: Running
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.Collection: Fall
Honest speech does not seek secret places.Collection: Honesty
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.Collection: Brain
My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.Collection: Confused
That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.Collection: Rain
The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.Collection: Law
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.Collection: Laziness
Quick enough, if good enough.Collection: Haste