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There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.


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SAINT IGNATIUS May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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SAINT BERNARD I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
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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.
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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