Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
ST. JEROMEWoman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
More St. Jerome Quotes
-
-
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME -
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME -
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME -
Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME -
Why do you not practise what you preach.
ST. JEROME -
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
ST. JEROME -
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME -
Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
ST. JEROME -
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
ST. JEROME -
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 -
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
ST. JEROME -
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
ST. JEROME -
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROME -
They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME -
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