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. JeromeThe 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. JeromeWoman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
St. JeromeThe fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
St. JeromeSo 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. JeromeWhosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.
St. JeromeIf 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. JeromePreferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
St. JeromeIf a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
St. JeromeNothing 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. JeromeEven while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
St. Jerome[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.
St. JeromeIf there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
St. JeromeThe laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.
St. JeromeOthers 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. JeromeLet 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. JeromeFor 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.
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