St. Jerome Quotes

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

  St. Jerome

  Praying, Speak

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

  St. Jerome

  Swim, Scripture, Drink

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• Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Bible, Ignorance, Sacred Scripture

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• It is our part to seek,
  His to grant what we ask;
  ours to make a beginning,
  His to bring it to completion;
  ours to offer what we can,
  His to finish what we cannot.

  St. Jerome

  Grants, Offers, Asks

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

  St. Jerome

  Inquiry, Scripture, Christianity

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

  St. Jerome

  Men, Devil, Scripture

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• Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

  St. Jerome

  Heaven, Catholic, Soul

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• There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.

  St. Jerome

  Life Is Short, Things In Life, Bigger

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

  St. Jerome

  Scary, Devil, Scorpions

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• Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

  St. Jerome

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• 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

  St. Jerome

  Heart, Dying, Doe

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• They please the world most, who please Christ least.

  St. Jerome

  World, Christ, Please

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.253, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Devil, May

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• Begin now what you will be hereafter.

  St. Jerome

  Success, Excellence, Classroom

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• 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.

  St. Jerome

  Giving, Forever, Trials

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• It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

  St. Jerome

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Stills

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.207, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  St. Jerome

  Suffering, Christ, Easy

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• The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

  St. Jerome

  Cute, Love You, Heart

  "Saint Jerome Collection [5 Books]". Book by Saint Jerome, Aeterna Press, Letter LIV, 2016.

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• A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

  St. Jerome

  Funny Friendship, Cute Friendship, Long

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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

  Angel, Race, Heaven

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• Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven

  St. Jerome

  Heaven, Earth

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• Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

  St. Jerome

  Book, Hands, May

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• The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

  St. Jerome

  Christian, Blood, Church

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.362, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  St. Jerome

  Suffering, Thank God, World

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

  St. Jerome

  Reflection, Enemy, Pace

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