Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
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I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.John Chrysostom
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
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Slander is worse than cannibalism.
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Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
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Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
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When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.
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