The charges we bring against others…
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.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
The detracting tongue…
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.
–Saint Jerome (c. 340-420)
Never dwell upon anything wrong…
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
–Saint Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
God requires us…
Reflect that God requires nothing else of us except that we show our neighbors the love we have for God.
–Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)
To withhold forgiveness…
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
–Saint Augustine (354-430)
Let us visit Christ…
Let us visit Christ wherever we may be. Let us care for him, feed him, clothe him, welcome him, honor him – not only at a meal, as some have done, or by anointing him, as Mary did, not only by lending him a tomb, like Joseph of Arimathea did, or by arranging for his burial, like Nicodemus, not only by giving him gold, frankincense and myrrh, like the Magi did before all the others. The Lord of all asks for mercy and sacrifice, and mercy is greater… Let us then show him mercy in the persons of the poor and those who today are lying on the ground, so that when we come to leave this world, we may be received into an everlasting dwelling place, by Christ our Lord. Amen
–Saint Gregory Nazianzen (329-c. 391)
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