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It is not enough just to wish well we must also do well.
Ambrose
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The devil tempts that he may ruin God tests that he may crown.
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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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True repentance is to cease from sin.
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It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.
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The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.
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The Psalms are the voices of the church.
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God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.
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Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say I am with you), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.
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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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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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We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?
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The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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When in Rome, live in the Roman way.
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If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.
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The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.
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As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.
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A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
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If you are at Rome live in the Roman style if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
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Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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