Quotes from Saint Jerome
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
— Saint Jerome
Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.
— Saint Jerome
The scars of others should teach us caution.
— Saint Jerome
The privileges of a few do not make common law.
— Saint Jerome
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
— Saint Jerome
Christians are not born but made.
— Saint Jerome
Love knows nothing of order.
— Saint Jerome
For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.
— Saint Jerome
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
— Saint Jerome
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
— Saint Jerome
To defend his position he piles up text upon text, waves his sword like a blind-folded gladiator, rattles his noisy tongue, and ends with wounding no one but himself.
— Saint Jerome
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'
— Saint Jerome