162 Quotes by St. Jerome

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- 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... The traditions which have been handed down should be regarded as apostolic laws.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

Others 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.

If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

So 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.

Why do you not practice what you preach.