If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.
St. JeromeThe 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. JeromeA man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
St. JeromeThe laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.
St. Jerome