--- title: "4 Cfs Quotes By Ambrose" description: "4 Cfs quotes by Ambrose. Plus more from Ambrose and more Cfs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/467/ambrose-9220_bones_if-you-offer-fasting-with-humility-and-w_1266247.jpg" --- > [If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/if-you-offer-fasting-with-humility-and-with-mercy-your-bones-as/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/467/ambrose-9220_bones_if-you-offer-fasting-with-humility-and-w_1266247.jpg) > [We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/we-ask-for-what-reason-our-lord-was-unwilling-to-state-the-time-of/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/25b/ambrose-9220_advantage_we-ask-for-what-reason-our-lord-was-unwi_1431499.jpg) > [... the Apostle Paul says that we are sealed in the Spirit (cf. Eph. 1:13); since we have in the Son the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/the-apostle-paul-says-that-we-are-sealed-in-the-spirit-cf-eph-1-13/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c81/ambrose-9220_apostle-paul_the-apostle-paul-says-that-we-are-sealed_1582646.jpg) > [Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/do-not-desert-a-friend-in-time-of-need-nor-forsake-him-nor-fail-him/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/472/ambrose-9220_adversity_do-not-desert-a-friend-in-time-of-need-n_1973292.jpg) ## Other authors on Cfs ## More by Ambrose > [It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/it-was-not-by-dialectic-that-it-pleased-god-to-save-his-people/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/we-do-not-innovate-anything-how-is-it-that-novelties-are-introduced/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/it-is-peter-himself-that-he-says-you-are-peter-and-upon-this-rock-i/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/as-a-servant-desireth-the-approval-of-his-master-and-a-son-the/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [There is no time of life past learning something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/there-is-no-time-of-life-past-learning-something/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who knows the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/the-apostle-peter-declared-that-the-church-was-built-by-the-holy/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/the-devil-tempts-that-he-may-ruin-god-tests-that-he-may-crown/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/if-every-time-the-blood-is-poured-out-it-is-poured-out-for-the/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/the-body-should-be-bedecked-naturally-and-without-affectation-with/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/and-let-them-remember-that-prayer-should-accompany-the-reading-of/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/prayer-is-the-wing-wherewith-the-soul-flies-to-heaven-and-meditation/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/dice-have-their-laws-which-the-courts-of-justice-cannot-undo/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/accordingly-death-is-a-harbor-of-peace-for-the-just-but-is-believed-a/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [...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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/now-since-you-are-celebrating-the-holy-pascha-you-should-know/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) > [The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose/the-rich-man-who-gives-to-the-poor-does-not-bestow-alms-but-pays-a/) [Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cfs/ambrose/#itemlist", "name": "4 Cfs Quotes By Ambrose", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If you offer fasting with humility and with mercy, your bones, as Isaiah said, shall be fat, and you shall be like a well-watered garden (cf. Isa. 58:11). 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