Quotes from Saint Jerome
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- Saint Jerome
Christians are not born but made.
- Saint Jerome
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
- Saint Jerome
The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks.
- Saint Jerome
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
- Saint Jerome
For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.
- Saint Jerome
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
- Saint Jerome
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'
- Saint Jerome
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.
- Saint Jerome
To saints their very slumber is a prayer.
- Saint Jerome
the world groaned and was astonished to find itself Arian
- Saint Jerome
Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.
- Saint Jerome