What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
"He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix.… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
It is not the man who is responsible for the offerings as they become Christ's Body and Blood; it is Christ Himself… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Thus abide constantly with the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that the heart swallows the Lord and the Lord the… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
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… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
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