Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse. — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good. — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril. — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls;… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share
