Jerome

Action without a name, a ‘who’ attached to it, is meaningless.

Jerome

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

Jerome

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

Jerome

An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.

Jerome

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

Jerome

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Jerome

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?

Jerome

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

Jerome

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

Jerome

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.

Jerome