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St. Jerome13 quotes
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. — St. Jerome · 395A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. — St. Jerome · 374Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. — St. Jerome · 374No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. — St. Jerome · 374Christians are not born, but made. — St. Jerome · 403The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. — St. Jerome · 394All 13 quotes →St. Augustine7 quotes
Give me chastity and continency—but not yet! — St. Augustine · 398Our heart is restless until it rests in you. — St. Augustine · 400A people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. — St. Augustine · 426The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls. — St. Augustine · 400Hear the other side. — St. Augustine · 391Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself and there I searched for you. — St. Augustine · 400All 7 quotes →Tertullian5 quotes
What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? — Tertullian · 220It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. — Tertullian · 217Truth does not blush. — Tertullian · 207Out of the frying pan into the fire. — Tertullian · 206It is to believed because it is absurd. — Tertullian · 206St. Cyprian3 quotes
There cannot be salvation for any, except in the Church. — St. Cyprian · 256He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother. — St. Cyprian · 251There is no salvation outside the Church. — St. Cyprian · 256Athanasius1 quote
God became man so that man might become God. — Athanasius · 318Libosus of Vaga1 quote
The Lord says in the gospel; "I am the Truth." He does not say "I am custom." Therefore, when the truth is made manifest, custom must give way to truth. — Libosus of Vaga · 400St. Ambrose1 quote
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style: when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. — St. Ambrose · 397