Quotes from Ambrose of Milan

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 third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

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 him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

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 my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.

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 of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.