Ancient Christian Devotional Quotes

“AUGUSTINE: People love truth when it shines on them and hate it when it rebukes them. For,”
― Cindy Crosby, Ancient Christian Devotional: Lectionary Cycle B

“ORIGEN: God cannot be called wise in the way that human beings are wise, because a wise man merely has a share in wisdom, whereas God is its author and source. Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans.”
― Cindy Crosby, Ancient Christian Devotional: Lectionary Cycle B

“Do not fall into despair because of stumbling. I do not mean that you should not feel contrition for your sins but that you should not think them incurable. For it is more expedient to be bruised than dead. There is, indeed, a Healer for the person who has stumbled, even he who on the cross asked that mercy be shown to his crucifiers, he who pardoned his murderer while he hung on the cross.... Christ came in behalf of sinners to heal the broken of heart and to bandage their wounds. "The”
― Cindy Crosby, Ancient Christian Devotional: Lectionary Cycle B

“AMBROSE: Do not rely on your own efforts but on the grace of Christ. "You are," says the apostle, "saved by grace. Therefore it is not a matter of arrogance here but faith when we celebrate: We are accepted! This is not pride but devotion." On the Sacraments 5.4.19.
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― Cindy Crosby, Ancient Christian Devotional: Lectionary Cycle B

“Since he rose we hope that we too shall rise. He himself has paid our debt. Then Paul explains more plainly how great the gift is: You are saved by grace. For it is not because of the excellence of our lives that we have been called but because of the love of our Savior. Epistle to the Ephesians 2.4-5.
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― Cindy Crosby, Ancient Christian Devotional: Lectionary Cycle B

“AMBROSE: For Christ alone walks in the souls and makes his path in the minds of his saints, in which, as on bases of gold and foundations of precious stone the heavenly Word has left his footprints ineffaceably impressed. On the Christian Faith 3.10.71-74.”
― Cindy Crosby, Ancient Christian Devotional: Lectionary Cycle B