Top 100 St. Jerome Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “They talk like angels but they live like men.”

— St. Jerome

52. “Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.”

— St. Jerome

53. “Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.”

— St. Jerome

54. “Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.”

— St. Jerome

55. “What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.”

— St. Jerome

56. “Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.”

— St. Jerome

57. “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.”

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

59. “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.”

— St. Jerome

60. “Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.”

— St. Jerome

61. “To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.”

— St. Jerome

62. “Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.”

— St. Jerome

63. “No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.”

— St. Jerome

64. “A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.”

— St. Jerome

65. “Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.”

— St. Jerome

66. “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.”

— St. Jerome

67. “Virginity can be lost by a thought.”

— St. Jerome

68. “A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.”

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

70. “Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.”

— St. Jerome

71. “The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.”

— St. Jerome

72. “To saints their very slumber is a prayer.”

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

74. “Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.”

— St. Jerome

75. “For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.”

— St. Jerome

76. “Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.”

— St. Jerome

77. “The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men’s only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.”

— St. Jerome

78. “Love knows nothing of order.”

— St. Jerome

79. “The tired ox treads with a firmer step.”

— St. Jerome

80. “That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.”

— St. Jerome

81. “Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.”

— St. Jerome

82. “The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.”

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

87. “The best advice I can give you is this. Church tradition – 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.”

— St. Jerome

88. “No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.”

— St. Jerome

89. “Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.”

— St. Jerome

90. “Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.”

— St. Jerome

91. “Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.”

— St. Jerome

92. “Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.”

— St. Jerome

93. “Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!”

— St. Jerome

94. “It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.”

— St. Jerome

95. “Honest speech does not seek secret places.”

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

97. “Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.”

— St. Jerome

98. “If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.”

— St. Jerome

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

— St. Jerome

100. “Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.”

— St. Jerome