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If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God. Isaac of Nineveh

God You Slow Promptly Wiser Answering Than Upset Anything Ask Request Your Receive

Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead. Isaac of Nineveh

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Do not test out your mind on the grounds that you are examining what seductive and impure thoughts look like, imagining that, as you do this, you will not be overcome by them. Even the wise have in this way been thrown into confusion and become infatuated. Isaac of Nineveh

Thoughts You Wise Overcome Confusion Mind Will Become Way Out Seductive Examining Thrown Like Look Test Been Infatuated Impure Them Your Grounds Even Imagining

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. Pope John Paul II

I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing. Pope John Paul II

Hope People Important Most Most Important Thing Important Thing The Most Important Communion Thing

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you. Pope John Paul II

The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril. Saint Ambrose

Best Way Those Best Way Peril Redeemer Redemption Gold Use

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good. Saint Ambrose

God Alone Good Divine No-One Therefore

Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things. Saint Ambrose

God Knowledge Light Witness Nothing Analogy Sun All Things Although Proved Escapes Heat Which Scriptures Created Things

A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life. Saint Ambrose

Life Future Duty Nothing Other Virtuous Recognized Future Life Also Which Useful Helpful Comparison Chosen Christians Two

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. Saint Ambrose

You Martyrs Crowns Take Taken Contests Away

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways. Saint Ambrose

Me Will Own Ways Those Thou Strive Redeemed Lord Am Repent Blood Sins Amend Forget Created Whom Thine

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. Saint Augustine

Abstain Sin Longer Forsake Forsaken

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Saint Augustine

Badly True Spoken Because Nor False Thing Uttered Necessarily

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. Saint Augustine

Soul Dust Carried Spirit Along Blood Dwell Which

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water. Saint Basil

Wisdom Food You Water Will Down Gave Hidden He Putting Longer Feet Sort How Line Discover Fishing Up Itself Than Swan Might Procure Then Notice Lowering Reason Deep Creator Now Brings Neck Below

It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary. Saint Basil

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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern. Saint Basil

Soul Heart Thought Men Our Ruling Easily Prone Purity He Part Individually Primary Sin Major Knowing Concern Sins Impulse Intention Ordained Formed Who Therefore Each Element Received

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects. Saint Basil

Truth Mind Slow Own Sense Our Sight Recognition Eye All Things Oneself Seems Objects Only Sin Know Another Does Itself Which Use Even Hardest Things Defects External

If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them. Saint Basil

Life Me Men Own State Pleasures Ways Find Rather Between Accept Gospel Lord Than Common Refuse Common Ground Which Them Flesh Hard Choose Ground Serve

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians. Saint Basil

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all. Saint Basil

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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses. Saint Basil

Love God Parents Animals Other Extraordinary Deficiency Superiority Because Irrational Offspring Senses Them Created Reason Who Each Among

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