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When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
Ambrose
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When in Rome, live in the Roman way.
Ambrose
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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The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I do but touch His garment I shall be whole' (Mt. 9:21). So the Church confesses her wounds, but desires to be healed.
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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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And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together for we speak to Him when we pray we hear Him when we read the divine saying.
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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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Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
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The Psalms are the voices of the church.
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A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?
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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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Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
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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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Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
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It is not enough just to wish well we must also do well.
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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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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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He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.
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Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.
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