"O most merciful Father, put far from me……" — Saint Ambrose
"O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies."
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Saint Ambrose
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21 Quotes by Saint Ambrose
Saint Ambrose has 21 quotes on this site.
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The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
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God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that…
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own…
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Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard…
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast…
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Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too…
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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be…
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A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison…
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Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat…
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A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to…
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is…
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never…
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No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they…
— George Whitefield
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be…
— Frederick Soddy
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Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and…
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The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs…
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[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we…
— David Attenborough
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. .…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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