Quotes from Ambrose of Milan

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

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.

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.

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

In some causes silence is dangerous.

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