liberality is determined not by the amount of our possessions, but by the disposition of giving. - Ambrose

Your possession is your mind, your gold your heart, your silver your speech: The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in the fire. A good mind is also a good possession. And, further, a pure inner life is a valuable possession.

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.

What mark of His mercy have we more ready at hand than that He Himself, through the prophet Hosea, is at once merciful as though reconciled to those whom in His anger He had threatened?