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


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It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w...
SAINT IGNATIUS
In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
SAINT IGNATIUS
In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju...
SAINT IGNATIUS
May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
SAINT IGNATIUS
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
SAINT IGNATIUS
May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
SAINT IGNATIUS
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je...
SAINT IGNATIUS
If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ...
SAINT IGNATIUS
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.
SAINT BERNARD
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ...
SAINT BERNARD
Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What do...
SAINT BERNARD
Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav...
SAINT BERNARD
I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of C...
SAINT BERNARD
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure...
SAINT BERNARD
A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do ...
SAINT BERNARD
Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in...
SAINT BERNARD
Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in ...
SAINT BERNARD
That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.
SAINT BERNARD
There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lackin...
SAINT BERNARD
You wish me to tell you why and how God should be loved. My answer is that God himself is the reason...
SAINT BERNARD
I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lor...
SAINT BERNARD
Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you want is not a sceptre, but a...
SAINT BERNARD
Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong...
SAINT BERNARD
In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so?...
SAINT BERNARD
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al...
SAINT BERNARD
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig...
SAINT BERNARD
We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
SAINT BERNARD
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
SAINT BERNARD
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
It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
SAINT IGNATIUS
Custom is second nature.
SAINT AUGUSTINE