WIST Quotations

Jerome (Saint) -- “Letter 3”

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

The friendship which can cease has never been real.

Jerome (Saint) -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Jerome (Saint) -- Letter 125

Dave — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:59:55 +0000

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

Jerome (Saint) -- Letter 52, to Nepotian (AD 394)

Dave — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:42:50 +0000

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 of Stridon (c. 347-420) Roman Christian priest, theologian, historian, translator, Doctor of the Church [Saint Jerome, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, Εὐσέβιος Σωφρόνιος Ἱερώνυμος]
Letter 52, to Nepotian (AD 394)

Alt. trans.: "Do not let your deeds belie your words; lest when you speak in church someone may mentally reply, 'Why do you not practice what you profess?'" [Philip Schaff & Henry Wace (eds.) A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, vol. 6 (1893)]

Jerome (Saint) -- Letter 60

Dave — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:06:13 +0000

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.