A Quote by Philip Neri

We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects.

Philip Neri

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Philip Neri
July 22, 1515 - May 25, 1595

If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

Philip Neri

If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to acknowledge honestly that we have not virtue enough to bear patiently with our neighbor's weaknesses, we should show our own imperfection, and this alarms our vanity.

Francois Fenelon

If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?

Josemaria Escriva

The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings.

Jim Warner

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Pope Francis

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

Joseph Joubert

It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.

E.W. Jackson

Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.

Samael Aun Weor

We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.

Mardy Grothe

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

Herbert Spencer

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

Solomon Ortiz

At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they don't call attention to these defects, but compensate for them by acting positively. They carefully avoid the slightest action, facial expression or word that would suggest ridicule.

Harun Yahya

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!

Blaise Pascal

It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that mankind are at the expense of supporting it. The defects of every government and constitution both as to principle and form, must, on a parity of reasoning, be as open to discussion as the defects of a law, and it is a duty which every man owes to society to point them out.