Quotes from Ambrose of Milan
There is no time of life past learning something.
- Ambrose of Milan
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 its light or heat enters into all things.
- Ambrose of Milan
No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
- Ambrose of Milan
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 rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.
- Ambrose of Milan
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
- Ambrose of Milan
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
- Ambrose of Milan
If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.
- Ambrose of Milan
The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
- Ambrose of Milan
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
- Ambrose of Milan
Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.
- Ambrose of Milan
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 soul, I may be accounted worthy to approach the Holy of holies.
- Ambrose of Milan
In some causes silence is dangerous.
- Ambrose of Milan