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The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible QUOTES

1 " Jerome then speaks of the unity of the sacred books. " Whatever, " he asserts, " we read in the Old Testament we find also in the Gospel; and what we read in the Gospel is deduced from the Old Testament. There is no discord between them, no disagreement. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

2 " The battering-ram of natural affection which so often shatters faith must recoil powerless from the wall of the Gospel. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

3 " they will learn how much better it is, when one is uninformed, to put questions than to make assertions; "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

4 " It is no small merit in God's eyes to bring up children well. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

5 " You should never boast of what your friends think of you. That is true testimony which comes from the lips of foes. On the contrary, if a friend speaks in your behalf he will be considered not as a witness but a judge or a partisan. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

6 " The one unbeliever is sanctified by his holy and believing family. For, when a man is surrounded by a believing crowd of children and grandchildren, he is as good as a candidate for the faith. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

7 " All that the saints say is a prayer to God; their whole prayer and supplication a strong wrestling for the pity of God, so that we, who by our own strength and zeal cannot be saved, may be preserved by His mercy. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

8 " Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

9 " the liberty of the soul is lost through the windows of the eyes, "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

10 " if need arises for holding converse with men, do not shun having witnesses, and let your conversation be marked with such confidence that the entry of a third person shall neither startle you nor make you blush. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

11 " Knowledge, when it is of the right kind, is the handmaid to love, for without love " knowledge puffs up, "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

12 " although all debts in word, deed, and thought were washed away in baptism. He, then, who sees aright, sees whence, and when, and where he must hope for that perfection to which nothing can be added. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

13 " On one side self-indulgence presses me hard; on another covetousness strives to make an inroad; my belly wishes to be a God to me, in place of Christ, "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

14 " To will and to run are mine, but they will cease to be mine unless God brings me His continual aid. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

15 " Overcome as much as you can—nay even more than you can—the sensitiveness of your mind and check the copious flow of your tears. Else your deep affection for your nephew may be construed by unbelievers as indicating despair of God. You must regretim not as dead but as absent. You must seem to be looking for him rather than have lost him. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

16 " For it is eloquence all the same whether few things are said in many words, or many things in few words. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

17 " every one praises most what is within his reach, "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

18 " I do not ask for grace of style, I look for purity of soul: for with Christians it is the greatest of solecisms and of vices of style to introduce anything base either in word or action. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

19 " holy men only know what God reveals to them. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

20 " A mind willing to learn deserves commendation even when it has no teacher. What is of importance to me is not what you find but what you seek to find. Wax is soft and easy to mould even where the hands of craftsman and modeller are wanting to work it. "

― Jerome , The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible