St. Ambrose quote: "Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 It is a great mystery of divine love, that not even in Christ was exception made of the death of the body; and although He was the Lord of nature, He refused not the law of the flesh which He had taken upon Him. It is necessary for me to die; for Him it was not necessary."

I just believe that everybody has concerns and is interested in the educational process,
ST. AMBROSE

Where Peter is, there must be the Church
ST. AMBROSE

There is no time of life past learning something.
ST. AMBROSE

The Devil tempts that he may ruin and destroy; God tests that He may crown.
ST. AMBROSE

Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397 To the good man to die is gain. The foolish fea...
ST. AMBROSE

Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Fa...
ST. AMBROSE

Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to s...
ST. AMBROSE

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
ST. AMBROSE

The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME

They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in t...
ST. JEROME

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME

Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME

Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse mee...
ST. VINCENT

The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had peo...
ST. VINCENT

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
ST. SIMON

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROME

Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
ST AUGUSTINE

Prayer is a groan.
ST. JEROME

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
ST. BERNARD

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
ST. BERNARD

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy re...
ST. BASIL

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
ST. BASIL

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
ST. BERNARD

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
ST. BERNARD

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
ST. JEROME

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers l...
ST. BASIL

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
ST. BERNARD

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of nec...
ST. BASIL

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
ST. BERNARD

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME

Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
ST. AUGUSTINE

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof t...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Punishment is justice for the unjust.
ST. AUGUSTINE

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...
ST. BASIL

God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ST. JEROME

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
ST. JEROME

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously ...
ST. VINCENT

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o...
ST. JEROME

I grew up around a lot of various religions, so it's a part of my consciousness in a way. Everyt...
ST. VINCENT

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f...
ST. JEROME

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almos...
ST. VINCENT

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr...
ST. JEROME

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something...
ST. VINCENT

I love so many songs from the '80s, but I'm obliged to the big ones.
ST. LUCIA

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis...
ST. AUGUSTINE

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language: fo...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.
ST. AUGUSTINE

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433 One can say: "I will, but my body does not ob...
ST. AUGUSTINE

God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should s...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastin...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 The truth is neither mi...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 But when does flesh receive the bread which He ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

What is Christ's joy in us, but that He deigns to rejoice on our account? And what is our Joy, which...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Picture God as saying to you, "My son, why is it that day by day you rise, and pray, and genuflect, ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan go...
ST. VINCENT

The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
ST. LUCIA

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
ST. AUGUSTINE

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME

The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD ST.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking a...
ST. VINCENT

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completel...
ST. VINCENT

Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues grat...
ST. JEROME

I'm supportive of women, absolutely, and it's so gratifying to have girls come up and say, &...
ST. VINCENT

Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a m...
ST. BASIL

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
ST. JEROME

And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, rig...
ST. VINCENT

I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain...
ST. LUCIA

If you want to build a ship
don’t herd people together to collect wood
and don’t assig...
ST. EXUPERY

No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little
ST. BASIL

I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT

It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is...
BERNARD, ST.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love becau...
BERNARD, ST.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
BERNARD, ST.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD, ST.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or ...
BERNARD, ST.

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD, ST.

Nothing can work me damage except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never a...
BERNARD, ST.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
BERNARD ST.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.
ST. VINCENT

St. Lucia in South Africa is this exotic place where you might go on vacation, and it evokes this no...
ST. LUCIA

Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin. All hope consists in confes...
ST. ISADORE

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
ST. AUGUSTINE

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
ST. AUGUSTINE

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long course...
ST. AUGUSTINE

At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end o...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Thou lovest, without passion; art jealous, wit...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lor...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624 It is not that we keep His commandments f...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 None can become fit for the future life, who h...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200 We need not despair of any man, s...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Whoever has Christ in his heart, so that no earthly or temporal things -- not even those that are le...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Ye have enemies; for who can live on this earth...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739 Other sins find their ...
ST. AUGUSTINE

When the will abandons what is above itself and turns to what is lower, it becomes evil -- not becau...
ST. AUGUSTINE

But when does flesh receive the bread which He calls His flesh? The faithful know and receive the Bo...
ST. AUGUSTINE

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
ST. JEROME

Quick enough, if good enough.
ST. JEROME

Never look a gift horse in the mouth!
ST. JEROME

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting
ST. JEROME

Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother!
ST. JEROME

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
ST. JEROME

Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.
ST. BASIL

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD ST.

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
ST. AUGUSTINE

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
ST. AUGUSTINE

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our heart, and there find Him. For He departe...
ST AUGUSTINE

Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apos...
ST. CYPRIAN

Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot...
ST. BONAVENTURE

Nothing can work me damage except myself.
ST. BERNARD

Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A man's personality actuates and qui...
ST. ATHANASIUS

Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Human and human-minded as men were, t...
ST. ATHANASIUS

Feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 Both from the confession of the evil...
ST. ATHANASIUS

Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
ST. ATHANASIUS

Feast of Philip & James, Apostles What was God to do in the face of the dehumanizing of mankind -...
ST. ATHANASIUS

Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 Those blessed ones of ...
ST. ANSELM

Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 O Lord our God, grant u...
ST. ANSELM

Feast of Joseph of Nazareth O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You, In the midst of the...
ST. ALCUIN

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfection.
ST AUGUSTINE

Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Continuing a short series on prayer: T...
ST. TERESA

Continuing a short series on the Bible: A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scr...
ST. JEROME

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
ST. EVERMOND

Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmo...
ST. CYPRIAN

Just suppose members of our churches were voted on, like the members of certain civic clubs. Suppose...
ST. CYPRIAN

One of my favourite things about country music is that, at least until recently, you could always co...
ST. VINCENT

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
ST. JEROME

It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you&#...
ST. LUCIA

I was really into Radiohead and Live.
ST. LUCIA

I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.
ST. LUCIA

The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the r...
ST. LUCIA

I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so...
ST. LUCIA

I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your ...
ST. LUCIA

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a...
ST. VINCENT

We've always enjoyed touring, which is fortunate because we're always on the road. The most ...
ST. LUCIA

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive...
ST. BASIL

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
AMBROSE BIERCE

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whate...
SAINT AMBROSE

It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard agains...
SAINT AMBROSE

The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
SAINT AMBROSE

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my li...
SAINT AMBROSE

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that th...
SAINT AMBROSE

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
SAINT AMBROSE

In some causes silence is dangerous.
SAINT AMBROSE

God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especi...
SAINT AMBROSE

Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body...
SAINT AMBROSE

It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
SAINT AMBROSE

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wron...
SAINT AMBROSE

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide ...
SAINT AMBROSE

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and th...
SAINT AMBROSE

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
SAINT AMBROSE

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
SAINT AMBROSE

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
SAINT AMBROSE

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
SAINT AMBROSE

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
SAINT AMBROSE

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the e...
AMBROSE BIERCE

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for,...
AMBROSE BIERCE

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to ...
AMBROSE BIERCE

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Doubt is the father of invention.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their ...
AMBROSE BIERCE

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
AMBROSE BIERCE

I always liked the guys who lasted a long time in the match and had endurance. People like Ric Flair...
DEAN AMBROSE

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to ...
AMBROSE BIERCE

Liberty:one of imaginations most precious possessions.
AMBROSE BIERCE

We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' w...
LAUREN AMBROSE

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he ...
STEPHEN AMBROSE

Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
AMBROSE BIERCE

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