St. Jerome Quotes About Scripture

Quotes about: Scripture

• 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

• Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Bible, Ignorance, Sacred Scripture

• 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

• 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

• Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Order, Baptism, Trying

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.306, Jazzybee Verlag

• A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

  St. Jerome

  Men, Church, Scripture

• To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Scripture, Christ

• Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa, or that Bethlehem would daily receive noble Romans, distinguished ladies, brought up in wealth and now reduced to beggary? I cannot help them all, but I grieve and weep with them, and am completely absorbed in the duties which charity imposes on me. I have put aside my commentary on Ezekiel and almost all study. For today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds; instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them.

  St. Jerome

  Daughter, Grieving, Egypt

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