Jerome Quotes

there is no good in frequently seeing objects which may one day lead to your captivity, or in making trial of things which you would find it hard to do without.

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.

How can the sun and the moon praise God as the prophet exhorts them to do? By perfectly carrying out the role God has given them. Thus they render Him great praise. Behold, therefore, a wonderful means by which you can praise God all day: do your duty and whatever else you are given to do well.

nothing is so displeasing to God as an impenitent heart. Impenitence is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.

For it is one thing to start a problem and another to expound what is already proved. The first calls for a disputant, the second for a teacher.

It is no easy task to throw one's rank into the shade by one's virtue, or to gain the affection of men who are forced to yield you precedence.

whether the victory be won in peace or in war, God gives the same reward to those who win it.

"I read Apollinaris, or other writers whose books in some things the Church does not receive. I by no means say that everything contained in such books is to be condemned, but I admit that there are things in them deserving of censure. Still, as it is my task and study by reading many authors to cull different flowers from as large a number as possible, not so much making it an object to prove all things as to choose what are good. I take up many writers that from the many I may learn many things; according to that which is written " reading all things, holding fast those that are good.

glory follows virtue as its shadow; and deserting those who seek it, it seeks those who despise it.

the world groaned and was astonished to find itself Arian

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

To defend his position he piles up text upon text, waves his sword like a blind-folded gladiator, rattles his noisy tongue, and ends with wounding no one but himself.

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

The whole truth is not taught in a single passage: we must always bear in mind the exact point of an illustration.

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