"Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art."

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On consideration.. .of the reason wherefore men have so far gone astray, or that many - alas! - should follow diverse ways of belief concerning the Son of God, the marvel seems to be, not at all that human knowledge has been baffled in dealing with superhuman things, but that it has not submitted to the authority of the Scriptures

— Ambrose