Altars Quote by St. Jerome Download Open image “A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.” — St. Jerome ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Altars Catholicism Heart Idols Vices
The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May the humanity that is within every human being be held precious. The vice that underlies all vices is that we are held cheap… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form... — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
And in any preaching you do, admonish the people concerning repentance, and that nobody can be saved except he who receives the most holy… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The revolting details of childbirth had been hidden from me with such care that I was as surprised as I was horrified, and I… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
For me it's really tough because you have to go to that place where you really, really don't want to go to or revisit.… — Morris Chestnut Copy Share Image
