Top 32 John Chrysostom Quotes
#1. The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
John Chrysostom
#2. Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
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#4. The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
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#7. 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...
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#8. We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast.
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#9. When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.
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#10. A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends
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#11. Everywhere, wherever you may find yourself, you can set up an altar to God in your mind by means of prayer.
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#13. Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.
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#14. Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
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#16. I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
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#17. For it cannot, it cannot be, that a man should enjoy the benefit of grace except he watch.
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#18. Though the waves and the sea and the anger of princes are roused against me, they are less to me than a spider's web.
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#19. Do not say I use what is mine: you use what is alien to you; the indulgent, selfish use makes what is yours something alien; that is why I call it alien good, because you use it with a hardened heart and claim that it is right, that you alone live from what is yours.
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#20. If a man cannot learn well a melody on pipe or harp, unless he in every way strain his attention; how shall one, who sits as a listener to sounds mystical, be able to hear with a careless soul?
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#21. The Holy Scriptures were not given
to us that we should enclose
them in books, but that we should
engrave them upon our hearts.
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#22. No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.
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#23. For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.
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#24. As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].
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#25. But first I want you to tell me this: do you know the power of love? Christ passed over all the marvellous works which were to be performed by the apostles and said, By this shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another.
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#26. For those who have little are not equally held in subjection by their possessions as those who overflow with affluence, for then the love of it becomes more tyrannical. The increase of acquisitions kindles the flame more, and renders those who possess them poorer.
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#27. Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
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#28. If then we have angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.
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#29. But now, instead of organs, Christians must use the body to praise God.
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#30. 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.
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#32. Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
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