Avarice Quote by Ambrose

It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.

— Ambrose

We do not innovate anything ... How is it that novelties are introduced which were never even thought of by our predecessors?

— 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…

— 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…

— Ambrose

There is no time of life past learning something.

— Ambrose

... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who knows the…

— Ambrose

The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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