Saint John Chrysostom Quotes
Top 92 wise famous quotes and sayings by Saint John Chrysostom
Saint John Chrysostom Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.
Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.
Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.
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.
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.
When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.
What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?
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.
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity ... Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about such things, and inquire from the Holy Scriptures all these things.
Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.
Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
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.
The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.
Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.
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.
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.
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.
Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.
Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?
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.
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.
There is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?