It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than… — 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… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young? — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind.… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by… — 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
