Saint Ambrose Quotes

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• The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
• God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be…
• It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to…
• Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is…
• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of…
• O most merciful Father, put far from me all my iniquities and all my offences; so that, by Thee made whole in body and in…
• Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be…
• 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…
• A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with…
• Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common…
• A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his…
• It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what…
• It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
• A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a…
• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are…
• No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
• Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life…

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