Saint Jerome Quotes & Sayings

Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint. — Martin Luther

What Saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it? — Jerome

To saints their very slumber is a prayer. — St. Jerome

And why is Saint Paula a Saint? She dumps her four kids at a convent. She runs off to Hajira with Saint Jerome. How is that a saint?
You've got shitty mothers all over America who would love to dump their kids and travel. — Amy Bloom

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit. — Jerome K. Jerome

Love is people telling you when you do something wrong and being there to celebrate when you do something right! — Xosha Roquemore

If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act. — James Mattis

Well, I do lie for a living. I'm an actor. — Sarah Wayne Callies

Before Summer Rain


Suddenly, from all the green around you,
something-you don't know what-has disappeared;
you feel it creeping closer to the window,
in total silence. From the nearby wood

you hear the urgent whistling of a plover,
reminding you of someone's Saint Jerome:
so much solitude and passion come
from that one voice, whose fierce request the downpour

will grant. The walls, with their ancient portraits, glide
away from us, cautiously, as though
they weren't supposed to hear what we are saying.

And reflected on the faded tapestries now;
the chill, uncertain sunlight of those long
childhood hours when you were so afraid — Rainer Maria Rilke

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either. — Neal Barnard

He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The only way to move forward is to be able to trust whomever you're with 100 percent. — Melissa McBride

Anything worth doing should be done according to the will of God. — Sunday Adelaja

He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him. — Jerome K. Jerome

You know what, I had 11 great years with St. Louis. My gosh, those are the best years of my life. And I will never, ever forget that. — Brett Hull