Jerome

Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

Jerome

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

Jerome

For 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.

Jerome

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Jerome

Haste is of the Devil.

Jerome

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

Jerome

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.

Jerome

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father’s knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

Jerome

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

Jerome

If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the bread of Heaven.

Jerome