Saint Ambrose Quotes
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.
God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
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.
Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
