Quotes from St. Jerome

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for a theologians to swim in without ever touching the bottom St. Jerome

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

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

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.

Make knowledge of the Scripture your love ... Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Love knows nothing of order.

No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.

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.

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.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

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

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

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

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

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

Good, better, best, never let it rest 'til the good is the better, and the better is the best