Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Girolamo Savonarola

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian priest Girolamo Savonarola.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Girolamo Savonarola or Jerome Savonarola was an Italian Dominican friar from Ferrara and preacher active in Renaissance Florence. He was known for his prophecies of civic glory, the destruction of secular art and culture, and his calls for Christian renewal. He denounced clerical corruption, despotic rule, and the exploitation of the poor.

Italian - Priest | September 21, 1452 - May 23, 1498

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It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

Girolamo Savonarola

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

Girolamo Savonarola

Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God.

Girolamo Savonarola

I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.

Girolamo Savonarola

Don't be ashamed to learn from others.

Girolamo Savonarola

God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

Girolamo Savonarola

If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

Girolamo Savonarola

Some have narrowed their minds, and so fettered them with the chains of antiquity that not only do they refuse to speak save as the ancients spake, but they refuse to think save as the ancients thought. God speaks to us, too, and the best thoughts are those now being vouchsafed to us. We will excel the ancients!

Girolamo Savonarola

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

Girolamo Savonarola

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

Girolamo Savonarola

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell.

Girolamo Savonarola

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Girolamo Savonarola

Lord! teach me the way my soul should walk.

Girolamo Savonarola