St. Jerome Quotes

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

  St. Jerome

  Catholic, Devil, May

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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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• Begin now what you will be hereafter.

  St. Jerome

  Success, Excellence, Classroom

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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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• 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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• 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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• To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Scripture, Christ

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

  St. Jerome

  Heaven, Earth

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• Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

  St. Jerome

  Failure, Inspiration, Entrepreneur

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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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• 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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• The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.

  St. Jerome

  Keys, Heaven, Church

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