It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
ST. JEROME
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.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
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When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
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The scars of others should teach us caution.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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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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Why do you not practise what you preach.
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Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
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When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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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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Woman is the root of all evil.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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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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Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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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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