Best 109 quotes of St. Jerome on MyQuotes

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

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

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

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

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.

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

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?

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

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

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

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

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

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.

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

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

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.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Haste is of the Devil.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

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.

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.

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

If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

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

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

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

It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.

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

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

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

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

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.

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

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

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

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