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.
ST. JEROMEFor 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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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The friendship that can cease has never been real.
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Begin now what you will be hereafter.
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The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
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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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A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
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Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
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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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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
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Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
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When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
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Virginity can be lost by a thought.
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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