The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with…

Ambrose

And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together; for "we speak…

Ambrose

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Ambrose

Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.

Ambrose

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

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...Now since you are celebrating the holy Pascha, you should know, brethren, what the Pascha is. Pascha means the crossing-over, and so the Festival…

Ambrose

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

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