When we read, God…
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
— Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Whenever the devil calls…
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Be at peace…
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Never let it rest…
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.
— Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Every day we are dying…
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
— Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Remedy for dryness…
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a beggar, to go first to one saint, then to another, to ask a spiritual alms of them with the same earnestness as a poor fellow in the streets would ask an alms of us.
–Saint Philip Neri (1515-1595)
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