70+ St. Jerome Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

To read without writing is to sleep.
ST. JEROME

One Liner Reading Sleep Writing
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

Appearance Body Fashion Purity Reveal Talk
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

Beginning Dignity Heaven Human Moments Person Race Soul Value
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME

Friendship Reality
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

Compare Evil Goodness Marriage Oneself Talk Virgin
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
ST. JEROME

Blame Eyes Light Myself See Sun
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
ST. JEROME

Honesty Meaning Music Need Passion
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
ST. JEROME

Himself Religious Soul Teaching
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROME

Equality Man Woman
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
ST. JEROME

Evil Happiness Truth Wait
Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME

Devil One Liner
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
ST. JEROME

Heaven Learning Seek Truth
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

Fall Heaven Maintain Marriage Religious Sex Sin
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
ST. JEROME

Alcohol Attack Devil Weapon Wine Young
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Fine Stomach Thinking
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME

Lost One Liner Thinking
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME

Food Herself Hide Money Poor Store
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
ST. JEROME

Attitude Character God Religious Sin World
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
ST. JEROME

Honesty One Liner Place Secret Talk
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
ST. JEROME

Angel Born Care God Greatness Ideas Moments Ourselves Soul
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
ST. JEROME

Man Religious Scripture
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
ST. JEROME

Big Life Live Ourselves Short
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
ST. JEROME

Entrepreneur Failure Inspirational
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
ST. JEROME

Death Expense Himself Man Mom
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME

Devil Employment Kind Work
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
ST. JEROME

Athlete Himself Inspirational Motivational
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME

Friendship Thinking True

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