St. Jerome Quotes

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.

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.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

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.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

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?

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.