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. JEROMEIt is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
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No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.
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Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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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.
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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