Quotes from St. Jerome
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
— St. Jerome
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
— 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
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
— St. Jerome
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
— St. Jerome
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
— St. Jerome
Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.
— St. Jerome
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
— St. Jerome
But when the bright light of all the world was put out, or, rather, when the Roman Empire was decapitated, and, to speak more correctly, the whole world perished in one city
— St. Jerome
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
— 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
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
— St. Jerome