St. Jerome Quotes

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

Why do you not practice what you preach.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

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

The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

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.

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.

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.

Quick enough, if good enough.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

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.

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven

Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it, and go to Hell guilty of three crimes: murdering themselves, committing adultery against Christ, and murder against their unborn child.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

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.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

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

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

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

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

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

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

To read without writing is to sleep.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

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

The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.

If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.

Love knows nothing of order.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

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

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.