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• 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.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Years, Holy Eucharist

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• Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

  Ambrose

  Heart, Men, Law

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• The Lord Jesus himself proclaims, 'This is My Body.' Before the blessing of the heavenly words something of another character is spoken of; after consecration it is designated 'body'. He himself speaks of his blood. Before the consecration it is spoken of as something else; after the consecration it is spoken of as 'blood'. And you say, 'Amen', that is, 'It is true.' What the mouth speaks, let the mind within confess; what the tongue utters, let the heart feel.

  Ambrose

  Jesus, Heart, Character

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• May each one of us glorify the Lord with the soul of Mary and rejoice in God with the spirit of Mary

  Ambrose

  Soul, May, Spirit

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• It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.

  Ambrose

  Soul, Church, Gold

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• He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others.

  Ambrose

  Catholic

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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?

  Ambrose

  Earth, Common, Rich

  "The Cry for Justice" by Upton Sinclair, p. 397, 1915.

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• If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.

  Ambrose

  Giving, Nine, Stewardship

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• When in Rome, live as the Romans do. When elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

  Ambrose

  Travel, Rome, Elsewhere

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• Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

  Ambrose

  Sympathy, Wicked, Harbors

  "De bono mortis" by Ambrose, 8, 31, 387-391.

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• A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

  Ambrose

  Kindness, Hands, Should

  Saint Ambrose, Aeterna Press (2016). “On the Duties of the Clergy”, p.53, Aeterna Press

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• Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)

  Ambrose

  Thinking, Intriguing

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• We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.

  Ambrose

  Angel, Praying, Guardian

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• Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

  Ambrose

  Spiritual, Dog, Attitude

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• The world has been created for everyone's use, but you few rich are trying to keep it up for yourselves. For not merely the possession of the earth, but the very sky, the air, and the sea are claimed for the use of the rich few... The earth belongs to all, not just to the rich.

  Ambrose

  Air, Sea, Sky

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• There is no time of life past learning something.

  Ambrose

  Learning, Past

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• Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

  Ambrose

  Men, Sin, Lord

  Saint Ambrose (2010). “Hexameron, Paradise, and Cain and Abel (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 42)”, p.12, CUA Press

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

  Ambrose

  Evil, Mind, Shackles

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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.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Church, Desire

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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.

  Ambrose

  Men, Rights, Use

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• As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.

  Ambrose

  Jesus, Perfect, Christ

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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.

  Ambrose

  Trying, Doctrine, Fundamentals

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• On consideration.. .of the reason wherefore men have so far gone astray, or that many - alas! - should follow diverse ways of belief concerning the Son of God, the marvel seems to be, not at all that human knowledge has been baffled in dealing with superhuman things, but that it has not submitted to the authority of the Scriptures

  Ambrose

  Son, Men, Scripture

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• The wise man does nothing but what can be done openly and without falseness, nor does he do anything whereby he may involve himself in any wrong-doing, even where he may escape notice. For he is guilty in his own eyes before being so in the eyes of others; and the publicity of his crime does not bring him more shame than his own consciousness of it.

  Ambrose

  Wise, Eye, Men

  St. Ambrose (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Ambrose (Annotated Edition)”, p.191, Jazzybee Verlag

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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.

  Ambrose

  Heart, Light, Joy

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