St. Jerome Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Bible, Ignorance, Sacred Scripture

• 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

• 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

• We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.

  St. Jerome

  Suffering, Christ, Easy

• 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

• 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

• The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

  St. Jerome

  Jesus, Animal, People

• To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Scripture, Christ

• The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

  St. Jerome

  Law, Judging, Religion

• Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it, and go to Hell guilty of three crimes: murdering themselves, committing adultery against Christ, and murder against their unborn child.

  St. Jerome

  Children, Abortion, Poison

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