Saint Ambrose Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In some causes silence is dangerous.”

“It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.”

“There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.”

“A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.”

“No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.”

“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.”

“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.”

“God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.”

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

“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.”