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— John Chrysostom
We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.
— Saint John Chrysostom
An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.
— Saint John Chrysostom
A comprehended god is no god.
— John Chrysostom
If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.
— Saint John Chrysostom
When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!
— Saint John Chrysostom
Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.
— Saint John Chrysostom
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].
— John Chrysostom
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
— John Chrysostom
A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.
— Saint John Chrysostom
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Everywhere, wherever you may find yourself, you can set up an altar to God in your mind by means of prayer.
— John Chrysostom
Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.
— Saint John Chrysostom
What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?
— Saint John Chrysostom
Endurance is the queen of all virtues.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
— John Chrysostom
No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.
— Saint John Chrysostom
For You are holy, our God, and to You we give glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever...
— John Chrysostom
But now, instead of organs, Christians must use the body to praise God.
— John Chrysostom
When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Let us not overlook so great a gain.
— Saint John Chrysostom
There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
— John Chrysostom
The fourth-century Greek theologian St. John Chrysostom said that Job's greatest trial was that his wife was not taken. (pg. 125)
— Ellen F. Davis
What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.
— Saint John Chrysostom
What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites us to Himself.
— Saint John Chrysostom
The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.
— Saint John Chrysostom
The Jews were God's chosen people.
— Saint John Chrysostom
That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.
— Saint John Chrysostom
What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts.
— Saint John Chrysostom
It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.
— Saint John Chrysostom
If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
— John Chrysostom
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
— Saint John Chrysostom
The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Thus abide constantly with the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that the heart swallows the Lord and the Lord the heart, and the two become one.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
— John Chrysostom
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.
— Saint John Chrysostom
I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.
— Saint John Chrysostom
You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls ...
— John Geddes
The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Fasting is a medicine.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
— Saint John Chrysostom
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.
— Saint John Chrysostom
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
— Saint John Chrysostom
The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.
— Saint John Chrysostom
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.
— John Chrysostom
The Holy Scriptures were not givento us that we should enclose
them in books, but that we should
engrave them upon our hearts. — John Chrysostom
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
— Saint John Chrysostom
The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.
— Saint John Chrysostom
He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.
— Saint John Chrysostom
The drunken man is a living corpse.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.
— Saint John Chrysostom
It brings comfort to have companions in whatever happens.
— Saint John Chrysostom
The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.
— Saint John Chrysostom
The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them.
— Saint John Chrysostom
When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.
— Saint John Chrysostom
It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?
— Saint John Chrysostom
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
— John Chrysostom
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
— John Chrysostom
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.
— Saint John Chrysostom
One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.
— Saint John Chrysostom
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
— John Chrysostom
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
— John Chrysostom
Where dance is, there is the devil.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Glory be to God for all things!
— Saint John Chrysostom
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
— John Chrysostom
Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.
— Saint John Chrysostom
There is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?
— Saint John Chrysostom
Only those who do not fight are never wounded.
— Saint John Chrysostom
What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free ...
— Saint John Chrysostom
The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.
— Saint John Chrysostom
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.
— Saint John Chrysostom