St. Jerome

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

— St. Jerome

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

— St. Jerome

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

— St. Jerome

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

— St. Jerome

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

— St. Jerome

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.

— St. Jerome

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of…

— St. Jerome

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

— St. Jerome

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

— St. Jerome

It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to…

— St. Jerome

Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what…

— St. Jerome

The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith…

— St. Jerome

If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the…

— St. Jerome

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned,…

— St. Jerome

The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are…

— St. Jerome

If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul,…

— St. Jerome

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged…

— St. Jerome

Haste is of the Devil.

— St. Jerome

Woman is the root of all evil.

— St. Jerome

What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.

— St. Jerome

Why do you not practise what you preach.

— St. Jerome

Love knows nothing of order.

— St. Jerome

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

— St. Jerome

To read without writing is to sleep.

— St. Jerome

Small minds can never handle great themes.

— St. Jerome

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

— St. Jerome

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

— St. Jerome

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

“When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself.”

— St. Jerome

Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an…

— St. Jerome

Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.

— St. Jerome

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

— St. Jerome

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

— St. Jerome