Ambrose Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

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

  Ambrose

  Men, Giving, Doe

• Do not desert a friend in time of need, nor forsake him nor fail him, for friendship is the support of life. Let us then bear our burdens as the Apostle has taught (cf. Gal. 6:2): for he spoke to those whom the charity of the same one body had embraced together. If friends in prosperity help friends, why do they not also in times of adversity offer their support? Let us aid by giving counsel, let us offer our best endeavors, let us sympathize with them with all our heart.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Adversity, Heart

• If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.

  Ambrose

  Giving, Nine, Stewardship

• ... the Apostle Peter declared that the Church was built by the Holy Spirit. For you read that he said: 'God, Who knows the hearts of men, bore witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as was given to us; and He made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith' (Acts 15:8-9). In which is to be considered, that as Christ is the Cornerstone, Who joined together both peoples into one, so, too, the Holy Spirit made no distinction between the hearts of each people, but united them.

  Ambrose

  Christian, Heart, Men

• When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

  Ambrose

  Rome, Giving, Church

  In St Augustine 'Letter 54 to Januarius' (c.400 A.D.) in 'St Augustine. Letters' vol. 1 (translated by Sister W. Parsons, 1951) p. 253.

• When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.

  Ambrose

  Rome, Giving, Church

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 677, 1922.

• 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.

  Ambrose

  Humility, Years, Giving

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