Saint Ambrose Quotes

• Where Peter is, there must be the Church.
  (Ubi Petris, ibi ergo ecclesia.)
  -- Explanatio psalmi
  
  
• If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
  -- quoted by Jeremy Taylor in Ductor Dubitantium
  
  
• In some causes silence is dangerous; so if any know of conspiracies against their country or king, or any that might greatly prejudice their neighbor, they ought to discover it.
  -- Attributed

A good number of quotations by Ambrose were used by Reformers in their 16th-century works. For a selection of such quotes, visit the Saint Ambrose of Milan site by David Jay Webber.

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