Top 140 Quotes & Sayings by St. Jerome

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

Haste is of the Devil.

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

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

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.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

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

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Why do you not practice what you preach.

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

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

They talk like angels but they live like men.

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

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

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

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

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

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

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

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

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

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

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

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.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

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.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

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

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

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.

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