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The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.
Ambrose
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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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The devil tempts that he may ruin God tests that he may crown.
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Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
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A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
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No one heals himself by wounding another.
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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
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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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Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
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A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
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How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right?
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When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.
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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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If you are at Rome live in the Roman style if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
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Nature has poured forth all things for the common use of all men. And God has ordained that all things should be produced that there might be food in common for all, and that the earth should be in the common possession of all. Nature created common rights, but usurpation has transformed them into private rights.
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As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.
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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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