St. Jerome Quotes - Page 2

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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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• To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Scripture, Christ

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• The scars of others should teach us caution.

  St. Jerome

  Love, Teaching, Heart

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.222, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• Love knows nothing of order.

  St. Jerome

  Order, Knows

  St. Jerome “The Principal Works of St. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

  St. Jerome

  Failure, Inspiration, Entrepreneur

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• No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

  St. Jerome

  Arrows, Stones, Care

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

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• If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.

  St. Jerome

  Holy Eucharist, Heaven, Trying

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• Honest speech does not seek secret places.

  St. Jerome

  Honesty, Secret Places, Doe

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

  St. Jerome

  Fall, Hypocrite, Faults

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.515, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  St. Jerome

  Men, Church, Scripture

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• Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

  St. Jerome

  Dying, Fancy, Eternal

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.273, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  St. Jerome

  Food, Perspective, Catholic

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.248, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.

  St. Jerome

  Christian, Boys, Men

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• 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

  Friendship, War, Dying

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• A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

  St. Jerome

  Heart, Idols, Vices

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• The friendship that can cease has never been real.

  St. Jerome

  Friendship, Real, Losing Friends

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• Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

  St. Jerome

  Wealth, Poor, Wealthy

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• Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?

  St. Jerome

  Practice, Church, Deeds

  "Letter 54" by Saint Jerome,

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• Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.

  St. Jerome

  Song, Ideas, Voice

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• To read without writing is to sleep.

  St. Jerome

  Writing, Sleep

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

  St. Jerome

  Men, Clergymen, Plague

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• Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.

  St. Jerome

  Religious, Children, Pain

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

  St. Jerome

  Heaven, Earth, Piety

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