ACC ~ Acts 10 v34

GOD ANSWERS OUR PRAYERS FREELY. AMBROSE: Even if God is merciful, were he always granting the prayers of all he would seem no longer to act freely, but, as it were, like someone under compulsion. Then, since all ask, if he were to hear all, no one would die. How many things do you not ask for daily? Must God’s design be destroyed because of you? When you know that a petition cannot always be granted, why do you grieve that sometimes your petition is not obtained? ON HIS BROTHER SATYRUS 1.65.

THOSE WHO CHOOSE THE WAY OF VIRTUE. CHRYSOSTOM: “God [you remember] is no respecter of person.” Rather, if he finds even one person in such a multitude doing what pleases him, far from scorning him he regales him with his particular providence and shows the greater care for him the more closely he has chosen the way of virtue at a time when there are others who are bent on evil. HOMILIES ON GENESIS 22.18.

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