And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married. St. Jerome More Quotes by St. Jerome More Quotes From St. Jerome Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity. St. Jerome wealthy wealth poor Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. St. Jerome devil kind may 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. Jerome saying-less devil soul The 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. Jerome land men facts Virginity can be lost by a thought. St. Jerome virginity lost sex Why do you not practise what you preach. St. Jerome practice-what-you-preach practice Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts. St. Jerome may book hands Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night. St. Jerome marriage sleep inspirational True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. St. Jerome catholic friendship thinking Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach? St. Jerome church deeds practice 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 faults ends home Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price. St. Jerome true-love affection love 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 wool purple mind Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels. St. Jerome vanity humanity moving 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 animal people jesus Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs. St. Jerome entrepreneur failure inspiration No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it. St. Jerome arrows care stones Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! St. Jerome short-summer catholic moments When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun. St. Jerome light eye god We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest. St. Jerome passionate meaningful needs
