St. Jerome Quotes - Page 2

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Love knows nothing of order.

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.

If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

Woman is the root of all evil.

It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

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.