Author: Saint Ambrose

Quotes

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

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

- Saint Ambrose

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.

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.

- Saint Ambrose

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, 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.

- Saint Ambrose

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

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

- Saint Ambrose

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

- Saint Ambrose

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