Quote #11
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'
More from St. Jerome
- The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
- No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
- While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
- That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
- Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
- It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
- It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
- Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.