St. Jerome quotes

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
-- St. Jerome

#Heaven #Catholic #Soul

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
-- St. Jerome

#Funny Friendship #Long #Christianity

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
-- St. Jerome

#Suffering #Thank God #World

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
-- St. Jerome

#Friendship #Thinking #Catholic

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
-- St. Jerome

#Devil #May #Kind

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
-- St. Jerome

#Ignorance #Ignorant #Stills

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
-- St. Jerome

#Suffering #Christ #Easy

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven
-- St. Jerome

#Heaven #Earth

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.
-- St. Jerome

#Christian #Blood #Church

There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
-- St. Jerome

#Life Is Short #Life Is #Bigger

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

#Inspirational #Marriage #Sleep

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life
-- St. Jerome

#Heart #Dying #Doe

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

#Food #Fasting #Easy

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.
-- St. Jerome

#Heaven #Trying #Desert

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
-- St. Jerome

#Purses #Hiding #Stores

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?
-- St. Jerome

#Practice #Church #Deeds

The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- 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 traditions which have been handed down should be regarded as apostolic laws.
-- St. Jerome

#Running #Law #Giving

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
-- St. Jerome

#Scripture #Inquiry #Christianity

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
-- St. Jerome

#Men #Devil #Scripture

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.
-- St. Jerome

#Religious #Pain #Children

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
-- St. Jerome

#Angel #Race #Heaven

Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
-- St. Jerome

#Bible #Ignorance #Scripture

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.
-- St. Jerome

#Prayer #Saint #Miscellaneous

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
-- St. Jerome

#Heaven #Earth #Piety

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
-- St. Jerome

#Love You #Heart #Unrequited Love

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
-- St. Jerome

#Catholic #Devil #May

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
-- St. Jerome

#Catholic #Moments #Hours

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
-- St. Jerome

#Body #Tongue #Dresses

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
-- St. Jerome

#Self Esteem #Esteem

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
-- St. Jerome

#Love #Affection #True Love

The scars of others should teach us caution.
-- St. Jerome

#Teaching #Scar #Should

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
-- St. Jerome

#Real

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.
-- St. Jerome

#Christian #Boys #Men

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

#Book #Hands #May

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

#Jesus #Teaching #Soul

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
-- St. Jerome