Quotes from St. Jerome
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.
- St. Jerome
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
- St. Jerome
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
- St. Jerome
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
- St. Jerome
So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
- St. Jerome
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
- St. Jerome
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.
- St. Jerome
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
- St. Jerome
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- St. Jerome
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
- St. Jerome
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.
- St. Jerome
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- St. Jerome