The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books) Quotes

“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.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“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.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“they will learn how much better it is, when one is uninformed, to put questions than to make assertions;”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“The one unbeliever is sanctified by his holy and believing family. For, when a man is surrounded by a believing crowd of children and grandchildren, he is as good as a candidate for the faith.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“It is no small merit in God's eyes to bring up children well.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“The battering-ram of natural affection which so often shatters faith must recoil powerless from the wall of the Gospel.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“All that the saints say is a prayer to God; their whole prayer and supplication a strong wrestling for the pity of God, so that we, who by our own strength and zeal cannot be saved, may be preserved by His mercy.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“the liberty of the soul is lost through the windows of the eyes,”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“For it is eloquence all the same whether few things are said in many words, or many things in few words.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“You should never boast of what your friends think of you. That is true testimony which comes from the lips of foes. On the contrary, if a friend speaks in your behalf he will be considered not as a witness but a judge or a partisan.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“To will and to run are mine, but they will cease to be mine unless God brings me His continual aid.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“Knowledge, when it is of the right kind, is the handmaid to love, for without love " knowledge puffs up,”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“if need arises for holding converse with men, do not shun having witnesses, and let your conversation be marked with such confidence that the entry of a third person shall neither startle you nor make you blush.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“I do not ask for grace of style, I look for purity of soul: for with Christians it is the greatest of solecisms and of vices of style to introduce anything base either in word or action.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“although all debts in word, deed, and thought were washed away in baptism. He, then, who sees aright, sees whence, and when, and where he must hope for that perfection to which nothing can be added.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“Overcome as much as you can—nay even more than you can—the sensitiveness of your mind and check the copious flow of your tears. Else your deep affection for your nephew may be construed by unbelievers as indicating despair of God. You must regretim not as dead but as absent. You must seem to be looking for him rather than have lost him.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“It is much better to take a little every day than some days to abstain wholly and on others to surfeit oneself.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“A mind willing to learn deserves commendation even when it has no teacher. What is of importance to me is not what you find but what you seek to find. Wax is soft and easy to mould even where the hands of craftsman and modeller are wanting to work it.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“every one praises most what is within his reach,”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“he who claims to believe in Christ must rejoice in all Christ's judgments.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“holy men only know what God reveals to them.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“On one side self-indulgence presses me hard; on another covetousness strives to make an inroad; my belly wishes to be a God to me, in place of Christ,”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“The presbyter is the same as the bishop, and before parties had been raised up in religion by the provocations of Satan, the churches were governed by the Senate of the presbyters. But as each one sought to appropriate to himself those whom he had baptized, instead of leading them to Christ, it was appointed that one the presbyters, elected by his colleagues, should be set over all the others, and have chief supervision over the general well-being of the community...Without doubt it is the duty of the presbyters to bear in mind that by the discipline of the Church they are subordinated to him who has been given them as their head, but it is fitting that the bishops, on their side, do not forget that if they are set over the presbyters, it is the result of tradition, and not by the fact of a particular institution by the Lord”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“We must cast away by any contrivance, and cut out by fire and sword and contrivances of all kinds, disease from the body, ignorance from the soul, luxury from the belly, sedition from the state, discord from the family, excess from all things alike.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“It is easier to guard against one who professes hostility than to make head against an enemy who lurks under the guise of a friend.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“it is easier for us to make light of things which we know well than of things which take us unprepared.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“The words of Plato in the third book of the Republic are as follows: " Truth, said Socrates, is to be specially cultivated.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“if you do fall, repentance will restore you, and you who were hypocrites at baptism may have a firm faith in your repentance. Be not disturbed by the thought of a difference between the righteous and the penitent, and do not imagine that pardon even gives a lower place; rather believe that it takes away your crown. For there is one reward: he who stands on the right hand shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“as by the favour of the sovereign those guilty of various crimes are released from prison, and each one, according to his toil and exertions, is in this or that condition of life, so too the penny, as it were by the favour of our Sovereign, is the discharge from prison of us all by baptism. Now our work is, according to our different virtues, to prepare for ourselves a different future.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“The Word was made flesh that we might pass from the flesh into the Word.”
― Jerome, The Complete Works of Saint Jerome (13 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible