St. Jerome Quotes

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

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

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

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

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

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

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

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

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.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

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

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.

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

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

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

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.

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.

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.

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

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

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.

Haste is of the Devil.

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

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.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

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

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?

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

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.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

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

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

The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.