1. “self-confidence is the worst of teachers—but from the church’s most famous writers.” – St. Jerome
2. “To read without writing is to sleep.” – St. Jerome
3. “The friendship that can cease has never been real.” – St. Jerome
4. “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
5. “The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.” – St. Jerome
6. “It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.” – St. Jerome
7. “Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.” – St. Jerome
8. “holy men only know what God reveals to them.” – St. Jerome
9. “The Word was made flesh that we might pass from the flesh into the Word.” – St. Jerome
10. “Love knows nothing of order.” – St. Jerome
11. “True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.” – St. Jerome
12. “Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.” – St. Jerome
13. “Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.” – St. Jerome
14. “Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.” – St. Jerome
15. “The best advice I can give you is this. Church tradition – especially when they do not run counter to the Faith – are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down.” – St. Jerome
16. “Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.” – St. Jerome
17. “Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.” – St. Jerome
18. “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
19. “Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.” – St. Jerome
20. “Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.” – St. Jerome
21. “it is easier for us to make light of things which we know well than of things which take us unprepared.” – St. Jerome
22. “you will know that it is a more difficult work to reject the opinion of others than to establish your own.” – St. Jerome
23. “An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.” – St. Jerome
24. “Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.” – St. Jerome
25. “There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.” – St. Jerome
26. “A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.” – St. Jerome
27. “When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.” – St. Jerome
28. “Woman is the root of all evil.” – St. Jerome
29. “Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.” – St. Jerome
30. “Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.” – St. Jerome
31. “Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.” – St. Jerome
32. “It is much better to take a little every day than some days to abstain wholly and on others to surfeit oneself.” – St. Jerome
33. “Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.” – St. Jerome
34. “When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself.” – St. Jerome
35. “Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.” – St. Jerome
36. “Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven” – St. Jerome
37. “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
38. “No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.” – St. Jerome
39. “Honest speech does not seek secret places.” – St. Jerome
40. “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
41. “Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.” – St. Jerome
42. “A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.” – St. Jerome
43. “Why do you not practice what you preach.” – St. Jerome
44. “Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.” – St. Jerome
45. “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
46. “Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.” – St. Jerome
47. “What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.” – St. Jerome
48. “No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.” – St. Jerome
49. “every one praises most what is within his reach,” – St. Jerome
50. “Small minds can never handle great themes.” – St. Jerome
51. “The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.” – St. Jerome
52. “Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.” – St. Jerome
53. “Haste is of the Devil.” – St. Jerome
54. “You should never boast of what your friends think of you. That is true testimony which comes from the lips of foes. On the contrary, if a friend speaks in your behalf he will be considered not as a witness but a judge or a partisan.” – St. Jerome
55. “Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.” – St. Jerome
56. “Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.” – St. Jerome
57. “The truly miserable have a timbre in their voices strong enough to erase smiles from the faces and souls of the contented.” – St. Jerome
58. “Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.” – St. Jerome
59. “For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.” – St. Jerome
60. “It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. ” – St. Jerome
61. “It is easier to guard against one who professes hostility than to make head against an enemy who lurks under the guise of a friend.” – St. Jerome
62. “A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.” – St. Jerome
63. “It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.” – St. Jerome
64. “Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.” – St. Jerome
65. “They talk like angels but they live like men.” – St. Jerome
66. “Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.” – St. Jerome
67. “No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.” – St. Jerome
68. “Never look a gift horse in the mouth.” – St. Jerome
69. “even in his own house, a man cannot use his eyes without danger.” – St. Jerome
70. “Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.” – St. Jerome
71. “When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.” – St. Jerome
72. “That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.” – St. Jerome
73. “They please the world most, who please Christ least.” – St. Jerome
74. “My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.” – St. Jerome
75. “Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.” – St. Jerome
76. “The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.” – St. Jerome
77. “If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.” – St. Jerome
78. “Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.” – St. Jerome
79. “Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.” – St. Jerome
80. “nothing is so displeasing to God as an impenitent heart. Impenitence is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.” – St. Jerome
81. “The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.” – St. Jerome
82. “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
83. “Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.” – St. Jerome
84. “Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” – St. Jerome
85. “He is rich enough who does not want bread.” – St. Jerome
86. “The scars of others should teach us caution.” – St. Jerome
87. “If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.” – St. Jerome
88. “To defend his position he piles up text upon text, waves his sword like a blind-folded gladiator, rattles his noisy tongue, and ends with wounding no one but himself.” – St. Jerome
89. “The belief which has not been accorded to conviction may come to be extorted by very shame.” – St. Jerome
90. “Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?” – St. Jerome
91. “Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.” – St. Jerome
92. “We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.” – St. Jerome
93. “Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.” – St. Jerome