21 Saint Ambrose Quotes for You to Enjoy

Saint Ambrose

Italian Saint

Born: 339

Died: 397

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Related authors: Francis of Assisi Joan of Arc Mother Teresa Pope John Paul II Saint Augustine Saint Ignatius Saint Teresa of Avila St. Jerome

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 purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years. Saint Ambrose

Love God Good Youth Fear Honor Parents Humility Despise Ought Give Purity He Forbearance His Years Subject Elders Modesty Should Youthful Ornament Preserve

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. Saint Ambrose

When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere. Saint Ambrose

Live Elsewhere Romans Rome

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 to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection. Saint Ambrose

Love Art God Alone Me Thoughts Soul Protection Mercy Guard Speed Extremity Thou Thou Art Restrain Take Sin Thy Nevertheless Majesty Heal Because Nor Quickly Lips Did May Refuge Canst Thee Turn Body Many

It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate. Saint Ambrose

Better Church Aid Possesses Scatter Abroad Better Thing Had He Come Without Souls Lord His Than Hoard Gold Form Unfortunate Sent Forth Apostles Who Thing Treasures Need Save

In some causes silence is dangerous. Saint Ambrose

Silence Dangerous Some Causes

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand. Saint Ambrose

Kindness Freer Returned Hand Should Received

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 faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy. Saint Ambrose

God Good Strength Soul Heart Joy Grace Gift Light Faithful Enjoy Our Possess Those See Supernatural He Since Him Glory His Accustomed Refusing Hold Ask Us Who Let Us Fast

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. Saint Ambrose

Words Too Much Own Too Back Run Riot Rather River Thy Talking Within Overflowing Sins Up Quickly Confined Banks Wanton Them Themselves Much Held Mud Grow Bind Gather

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 with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all. Saint Ambrose

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

Man Heart Also His Where Treasure

Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show. Saint Ambrose

Faith Time Thoughts You Soul World Ways Must Follow Spirit Take Outward Him Lord His Same Refuge Same Time Hold After Us Body Your Show Even Let Us Fast Tread Present Here Kept

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. Saint Ambrose

Religion Mind Evil Nothing Shackles Which Conscience Save

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. Saint Ambrose

Mind Own Ought Our Weak Both Wrong Check Clearly Clergy Another Souls Motions Duties Fulfilled Fortitude Even Keep Injury Right Disregard Receiving Christians Third

The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril. Saint Ambrose

Best Way Those Best Way Peril Redeemer Redemption Gold Use

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good. Saint Ambrose

God Alone Good Divine No-One Therefore

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. Saint Ambrose

God Knowledge Light Witness Nothing Analogy Sun All Things Although Proved Escapes Heat Which Scriptures Created Things

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 the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life. Saint Ambrose

Life Future Duty Nothing Other Virtuous Recognized Future Life Also Which Useful Helpful Comparison Chosen Christians Two

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

You Martyrs Crowns Take Taken Contests Away

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. Saint Ambrose

Me Will Own Ways Those Thou Strive Redeemed Lord Am Repent Blood Sins Amend Forget Created Whom Thine

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