Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jerome (Greek Priest)

St. Jerome (c.342–420 CE,) originally Eusebius Hieronymus, was a Christian ascetic and biblical scholar. The most erudite and articulate of the four Latin Doctors of the Church, he is primarily recognized for his compilation of the Vulgate, the official Latin Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.

Born in Stridon, near Aquileia, Dalmatia, Jerome studied Greek and Latin rhetoric and philosophy at Rome, where he was also baptized. He lived for a time as a recluse, became a priest, served as secretary to Pope Damasus I, led a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 385 CE, and established a monastery at Bethlehem in 389 CE. There he wrote the first Latin translation of the Bible from the Hebrew, which became known as the Vulgate.

St. Jerome’s many biblical, ascetical, monastic, and theological works profoundly influenced the early Middle Ages. He also wrote biblical commentaries, and vehement criticisms of Jovinian, Vigilantius, and the Pelagians, and even of Rufinus and St. Augustine of Hippo.

St. Jerome’s Feast day is 30 September.

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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
—Jerome
Topics: Exercise

Let us learn upon earth, those things which can prepare us for heaven.
—Jerome

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
—Jerome
Topics: Marriage

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
—Jerome
Topics: Friends and Friendship

Hypocrite reader – my fellow – my brother.
—Jerome
Topics: Hypocrisy

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
—Jerome
Topics: Friends and Friendship

Prayer is a groan.
—Jerome
Topics: Prayer

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
—Jerome
Topics: Love

No one will tell a tale of scandal, except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to check and rebuke the detracting tongue, by showing that you do not listen to it but with displeasure.
—Jerome

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
—Jerome
Topics: Service

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
—Jerome
Topics: Heart

How great the dignity of the soul, since each one has from its birth an angel commissioned to guard it.
—Jerome

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
—Jerome
Topics: Action

Virginity can be lost by a thought.
—Jerome

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—Jerome
Topics: Diet

The scars of others should teach us caution.
—Jerome

Be always employed about some rational thing, that the devil find thee not idle.
—Jerome
Topics: Employment

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
—Jerome
Topics: Friends and Friendship

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