St. Jerome Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.”
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“A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.”
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“Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.”
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“True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.”
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“Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.”
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“It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.”
-- St. JeromeSource : St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.207, Jazzybee Verlag
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“We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.”
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“Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven”
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“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.”
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“There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.”
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“Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.”
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“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”
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“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.”
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“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.”
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“Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.”
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“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. JeromeSource : "Letter 54" by Saint Jerome,
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“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.”
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“Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.”
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“A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.”
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“Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.”
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“The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.”
-- St. JeromeSource : "Saint Jerome Collection [5 Books]". Book by Saint Jerome, Aeterna Press, Letter LIV, 2016.
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“Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.”
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“Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!”
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“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.”
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“Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.”
-- St. Jerome
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