Quotes from St. Jerome
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
- St. Jerome
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.
- St. Jerome
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
- St. Jerome
When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
- St. Jerome
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
- St. Jerome
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
- St. Jerome
Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.
- St. Jerome
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
- St. Jerome
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.
- St. Jerome
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.
- St. Jerome
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
- St. Jerome
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
- St. Jerome