162 Quotes by St. Jerome

Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

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.

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.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Haste is of the Devil.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.