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• When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

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  Rome

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• It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.

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  Safety, Firsts, Strive

  Saint Ambrose, Aeterna Press (2016). “On the Duties of the Clergy”, p.44, Aeterna Press

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• The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved . . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of baptism . . . "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God"

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  Men, Blood, Differences

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• ... these three witnesses are one, as John said: 'The water, the blood, and the Spirit' (I Jn. 5:8). One in the mystery, not in nature. The water, then, is a witness of burial, the blood is a witness of death, the Spirit is a witness of life. If, then, there be any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water, but from the presence of the Holy Spirit.

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  Christian, Blood, Water

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• The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination.

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  Spiritual, Inspiration, Illumination

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• What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.

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  Years, Overcoming, Benefits

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• But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.

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  Prayer, Angel, Has Beens

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• ... the Apostle Paul says that we are sealed in the Spirit (cf. Eph. 1:13); since we have in the Son the image of the Father, and in the Spirit the seal of the Son. Let us, then, sealed by this Trinity, take more diligent heed, lest either levity of character or the deceit of any unfaithfulness unseal the pledge which we have received in our hearts.

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  Christian, Father, Heart

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• We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?

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  Catholic, Novelty, Predecessors

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• The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

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  Government, Church, Emperor

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• When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.

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  Rome, Giving, Church

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 677, 1922.

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• ... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who knows the hearts of men, bore witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as was given to us; and He made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith' (Acts 15:8-9). In which is to be considered, that as Christ is the Cornerstone, Who joined together both peoples into one, so, too, the Holy Spirit made no distinction between the hearts of each people, but united them.

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  Christian, Heart, Men

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• Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.

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  Law, Gambling, Justice

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• When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.

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  Rome

  "Latin Proverbs and Quotations". Book by Alfred Henderson, 1869.

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• When in Rome, live in the Roman way.

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  Rome, Way

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