Quotes from Jerome

whether the victory be won in peace or in war, God gives the same reward to those who win it.

The rude and simple brother must not suppose himself a saint just because he knows nothing; and he who is educated and eloquent must not measure his saintliness merely by his fluency.

There is no cruelty in regard for God's honour.

The art of interpreting the scriptures is the only one of which all men everywhere claim to be masters.

It is much better to take a little every day than some days to abstain wholly and on others to surfeit oneself.

Exchange your love of necklaces and of gems and of silk dresses for earnestness in studying the scriptures.

Jerome then speaks of the unity of the sacred books. Whatever, he asserts, we read in the Old Testament we find also in the Gospel; and what we read in the Gospel is deduced from the Old Testament. There is no discord between them, no disagreement.

Read often, learn all that you can. Let sleep overcome you, the roll still in your hands; when your head falls, let it be on the sacred page.

The best advice I can give you is this. Church tradition - especially when they do not run counter to the Faith - are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down.

The battering-ram of natural affection which so often shatters faith must recoil powerless from the wall of the Gospel.

they will learn how much better it is, when one is uninformed, to put questions than to make assertions;

It is no small merit in God's eyes to bring up children well.