It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
ST. JEROMEIt is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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They talk like angels but they live like men.
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To read without writing is to sleep.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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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.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.
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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
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Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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Make knowledge of the Scripture your love. Live with them, meditate on them, make them the sole object of your knowledge and inquiries.
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Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
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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.
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