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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
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If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.
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Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Ambrose Bierce
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No one heals himself by wounding another.
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Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light.
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Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Ambrose Bierce
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The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce
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If it is daily bread, why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is to profit you daily. Live in such a way that you may deserve to receive it daily. He who does not deserve to receive it daily, does not deserve to receive it once a year.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Ambrose Bierce
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant.
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But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.
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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
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When you doubt, abstain.
Ambrose Bierce
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Ambrose Bierce
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Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
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Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
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It is not enough just to wish well we must also do well.
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When in Rome, live in the Roman way.
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Remember, then, that you received a spiritual seal, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of knowledge and reverence, the spirit of holy fear. Keep safe what you received. God the Father sealed you, Christ the Lord strengthened you and sent the Spirit into your hearts as the pledge of what is to come.
Ambrose
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