"Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies……" — Ambrose
"Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God."
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63 Quotes by Ambrose
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When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking about Christ. When we speak about virtue, we are speaking about Christ.…
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
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We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.
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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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Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No…
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The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous…
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The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but…
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Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he…
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If it is "daily bread," why do you take it once a year? . . . Take daily what is…
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The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by…
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The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal,…
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
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No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and…
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other…
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He…
— Teresa of Avila
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