We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall not find it is owing to ignorance, but to wisdom. For it was not to… — Ambrose Copy Share
We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors? — Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who knows the hearts of men, bore witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as was given to us; and He made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith' (Acts 15:8-9). In which is to… — Ambrose Copy Share
If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. — Ambrose Copy Share Image
