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 Image
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
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 Image
No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good. — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
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 Image
The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril. — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
