Jerome Quotes

51 Sourced Quotes

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.

Jerome
The best almoner is he who keeps back nothing for himself.

Jerome
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.

Jerome
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

Jerome
Neither Britain, a province fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

Jerome
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

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

Jerome
Holy writ is the scripture of peoples, for it is made, that all peoples should know it.

Jerome
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.

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

Jerome
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

Jerome
A clergyman who engages in business, and who rises from poverty to wealth, and from obscurity to a high position, avoid as you would the plague.

Jerome
The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

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

Jerome
The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Jerome
A dreadful rumor reached us from the West. We heard that Rome was besieged, that the citizens were buying their safety with gold, and that when they had been thus despoiled they were again beleaguered, so as to lose not only their substance but their lives.... The speaker's voice failed and sobs interrupted his utterance. The city which had taken the whole world was itself taken; nay, it fell by famine before it fell by the sword, and there were but few to be found to be made prisoner.

Jerome
Small minds can never handle great themes.

Jerome
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

Jerome
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

Jerome
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

Jerome
The privileges of a few do not make common law.

Jerome
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

Jerome
Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.

Jerome
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

Jerome
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

Jerome
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.

Jerome
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.

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?"

Jerome
We are always ready to imitate what is evil; and faults are quickly copied where virtues appear unattainable.

Jerome
The scars of others should teach us caution.

Jerome