Jerome Quotes

self-confidence is the worst of teachers — but from the church's most famous writers.

Privilegia paucorum non faciunt legem.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Negotiatorem clericum, et ex inope divitem, ex ignobili gloriosum quasi quandam pestem fuge.

And do ye tell it to those
who come after you, how
amid swords and deserts
and wild beasts, chastity
was never captive: and how
a man devoted to Christ may
die, but cannot be defeated.

it is easier for us to make light of things which we know well than of things which take us unprepared.

There is no cruelty in regard for God's honour.

Amicum qui diu quaeritur, vix invenitur, difficile servatur.

Ne hoc quidem scire quod nescias.

To be deceived is the common lot of both layman and bishop.

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.

The belief which has not been accorded to conviction may come to be extorted by very shame.

For as we admire the Creator not only as the framer of heaven and earth, of sun and ocean, of elephants, camels, horses, oxen, pards, bears, and lions; but also as the maker of the most tiny creatures, ants, gnats, flies, worms, and the like, whose shapes we know better than their names, and as in all alike we revere the same creative skill; so the mind that is given to Christ shows the same earnestness in things of small as of great importance, knowing that it must render an account of every idle word.

Nisi quod in se habet mordacis aliquid veritatis.

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