The detracting tongue…
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.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
When the stomach…
When the stomach is full it is easy to talk of fasting.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Unwilling listener…
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
— Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Practice what you preach…
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?”
— Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
In the face of trial…
If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
— Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Being over seventy is…
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
— Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
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