Quotes from St. Jerome

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Hypocrite reader — my fellow — my brother!

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

And do ye tell it to those who come after you, how amid swords and deserts and wild beasts, chastity was never captive: and how a man devoted to Christ may die, but cannot be defeated.

She] personally tended the unhappy and impoverished victims of hunger and disease. I have often seen her washing wounds which others — even men — could hardly bear to look at ... She founded a hospital and gathered there the sufferers from the streets, and gave them all the attention of a nurse... How often she carried home, on her shoulders, the dirty and poor who were plagued with epilepsy! How she washed the pus from sores which others could not even behold.

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

Good, better, best, never let it rest 'til the good is the better, and the better is the best

When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself.

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it?

How can the sun and the moon praise God as the prophet exhorts them to do? By perfectly carrying out the role God has given them. Thus they render Him great praise. Behold, therefore, a wonderful means by which you can praise God all day: do your duty and whatever else you are given to do well.

But when the bright light of all the world was put out, or, rather, when the Roman Empire was decapitated, and, to speak more correctly, the whole world perished in one city

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.