Quotes from St. Jerome
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
- St. Jerome
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
- St. Jerome
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
- St. Jerome
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
- St. 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.
- St. Jerome
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
- St. Jerome
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
- St. Jerome
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
- St. Jerome
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
- St. Jerome
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
- St. Jerome
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
- St. Jerome
It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
- St. Jerome