Let, then, nothing call you away from penitence, for this you have in common with the saints, and would that such sorrowing for sin as that of the saints were copied by you. David, as it were, "ate ashes for bread, and mingled his drink with weeping," and therefore now rejoices the more because he wept the more: "My eyes ran down," he said, "with rivers of water." - St. Ambrose, *On Repentance* Book II, Par. 93
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