Saint Ambrose
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More Saint Ambrose
When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whate... SAINT AMBROSE It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard agains... SAINT AMBROSE The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril. SAINT AMBROSE Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my li... SAINT AMBROSE Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that th... SAINT AMBROSE Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. SAINT AMBROSE In some causes silence is dangerous. SAINT AMBROSE Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body... SAINT AMBROSE It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well. SAINT AMBROSE One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wron... SAINT AMBROSE God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide ... SAINT AMBROSE God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and th... SAINT AMBROSE There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. SAINT AMBROSE No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good. SAINT AMBROSE A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand. SAINT AMBROSE Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also. SAINT AMBROSE When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. SAINT AMBROSE Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast red... SAINT AMBROSE A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders,... SAINT AMBROSE It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are r... SAINT AMBROSE Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too ... SAINT AMBROSE Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barr... SAINT AMBROSE God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he... SAINT AMBROSE It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostl... SAINT AMBROSE When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I
do not fast. So likewise you, what... SAINT AMBROSE When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday: when I am at Milan I do
not. Do the same. Follow the cu... SAINT AMBROSE If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere
live as they live elsewhere.
[La... SAINT AMBROSE Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy... SAINT AMBROSE When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. SAINT AMBROSE A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison ... SAINT AMBROSE Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. A... SAINT AMBROSE When in Rome, live as the Romans do: when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. SAINT AMBROSE Perhaps you say, Why are the wicked joyous? Why do they live in luxury? Why do they not toil with me... SAINT AMBROSE OF MILAN Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which... 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SAINT IGNATIUS It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as ... SAINT IGNATIUS Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of w... SAINT IGNATIUS In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingra... SAINT IGNATIUS Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the impe... SAINT IGNATIUS Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought n... SAINT IGNATIUS Teach us to give and not to count the cost. SAINT IGNATIUS In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju... SAINT IGNATIUS May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him! SAINT IGNATIUS True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor. SAINT IGNATIUS May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help. SAINT IGNATIUS For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Je... SAINT IGNATIUS If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ... SAINT IGNATIUS SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BERNARD SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL SAINT BASIL It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey. 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SAINT IGNATIUS SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT BERNARD Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meani... SAINT IGNATIUS SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT BASIL SAINT JEROME SAINT JEROME SAINT BARTHOLOMEW SAINT BASIL SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep... SAINT IGNATIUS SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT BERNARD SAINT STEPHEN SAINT STEPHEN In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out cl... SAINT IGNATIUS SAINT PATRICK SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT BASIL SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT AUGUSTINE SAINT BASIL SAINT AUGUSTINE
In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and ... 
Those small moments of pleasure men get from sin, from defying God, are perhaps grace - His final gi... 
In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He was ... 
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... 
He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God. 
Why not admit that it is not our paramount duty to weep with all those who are weeping, to suffer wi... 
The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evi... 
We, according to the Scriptures, plainly believe that Christ hath, by his righteousness, merited for... 
I do know this... I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me... 
The Friendship is not a reward for our discrimination and good taste in finding one another out. IT ... 
One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears i... 
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart beca... 
Two men please God -- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all... 
Two men please God--who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all h... 
Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all li... 
The point of this good-day-bad-day comparison is this: Regardless of our performance, we are always ... 
There is just one true God (I AM), and He is the giver of life! We have just one lifetime chance to ... 
Hence, when we ask anything of God and He begins to hear us, He so often goes counter to our petitio... 
God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about hi... 
For this is the cause why we be not all in ease of heart and soul: that we seek here rest in those t... 
The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the... 
His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution;... 
God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our h... 
Instead of rushing foolishly into a marriage because of impatience or one day looking back at our se... 
When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discour... 
Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares... 
The Lord protects, guides, and watches over those who are His trusted friends in His work. His work ... 
If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us... 
On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclin... 
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to ... 
There is just one true God (I AM), and He is the giver of life! We have just one lifetime chance to ... 
I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. A... 
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas... 
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us -... 
He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood - both its powe... 
He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as a... 
To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and ho... 
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. 
It is easier for us to get to know God than to know our own soul...God is nearer to us than our soul... 
Maundy Thursday Jesus invites His saints To meet around His board; Here pardon'd rebels sit... 
For Abelard, the death of Christ on the Cross did not, strictly speaking, redeem man: it only offere... 
Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 He has loved us without being loved... We are b... 
The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His Father and ... 
The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g... 
Let us display our loyalty and love and embrace every opportunity to become wealthy and strong; let ... 
Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Secondly, the proper counsel and intention of God in sending his Son into the world to die was, that... 
Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon th... 
Satan, our adversary, wants us to fail. He spreads lies as part of his effort to destroy our belief.... 
Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po... 
Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided st... 
It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according ... 
Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumst... 
Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to ... 
Our sacred duty is to love, motivate and pray for one another, so that, we all received grace of God... 
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not... 
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked. 
I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth... 
I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some. 
Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not. 
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment ... 
Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she hav... 
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enqu... 
To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him. 
The verdict of the world is conclusive. 
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. 
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
[Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.] 
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. 
Once you begin to believe there is help out there, you will know it to be true. 
You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-p... 
We cannot both preach and administer financial matters. 