--- title: "14 Should Quotes By Saint John Chrysostom" description: "14 Should quotes by Saint John Chrysostom. Plus more from Saint John Chrysostom and more Should sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_proper-time_let-us-always-guard-our-tongue-not-that_218035.jpg" --- > [Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/let-us-always-guard-our-tongue-not-that-it-should-always-be-silent/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_proper-time_let-us-always-guard-our-tongue-not-that_218035.jpg) > [The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/the-slave-should-be-resigned-to-his-lot-in-obeying-his-master-he-is/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_masters_the-slave-should-be-resigned-to-his-lot_116426.jpg) > [Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/every-family-should-have-a-room-where-christ-is-welcome-in-the-person/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_christ_every-family-should-have-a-room-where-ch_1941182.jpg) > [We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/we-should-not-bear-it-with-bad-grace-if-the-answer-to-our-prayer-is/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d5/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_answers_we-should-not-bear-it-with-bad-grace-if_1929659.jpg) > [I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/i-hear-no-one-boast-that-he-hath-a-knowledge-of-the-scriptures-but/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41b/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_bible_i-hear-no-one-boast-that-he-hath-a-knowl_2458940.jpg) > [How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/how-many-of-you-say-i-should-like-to-see-his-face-his-garments-his/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/117/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_blessed-sacrament_how-many-of-you-say-i-should-like-to-see_3103876.jpg) > [We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/we-ought-not-as-soon-as-we-leave-church-to-plunge-into-business/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f4/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_bible_we-ought-not-as-soon-as-we-leave-church_3150368.jpg) > [Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/things-themselves-do-not-remain-but-their-effects-do-therefore-we/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c3/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_calculating_things-themselves-do-not-remain-but-thei_304224.jpg) > [When an archer desires to shoot his arrows successfully, he first takes great pains over his posture and aligns himself accurately with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/when-an-archer-desires-to-shoot-his-arrows-successfully-he-first/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c9/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_archer_when-an-archer-desires-to-shoot-his-arro_255129.jpg) > [For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/for-christians-above-all-men-are-forbidden-to-correct-the-stumblings/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_authority_for-christians-above-all-men-are-forbidd_2819714.jpg) > [If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/if-the-lord-should-give-you-power-to-raise-the-dead-he-would-give/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00f/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_able_if-the-lord-should-give-you-power-to-rai_627137.jpg) > [Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/such-is-friendship-that-through-it-we-love-places-and-seasons-for-as/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0e3/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_body_such-is-friendship-that-through-it-we-lo_2263440.jpg) > [How many there are who still say, 'I want to see His shape, His image, His clothing, His sandals.' Behold, you do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/how-many-there-are-who-still-say-i-want-to-see-his-shape-his-image/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/855/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_ardent_how-many-there-are-who-still-say-i-want_1289416.jpg) > [He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/he-passed-over-his-fall-and-appointed-him-first-of-the-apostles/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df3/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_apostles_he-passed-over-his-fall-and-appointed-hi_1687339.jpg) ## Other authors on Should ## More by Saint John Chrysostom > [God measures out affliction to our need.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/god-measures-out-affliction-to-our-need/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) > [If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/if-we-approach-with-faith-we-too-will-see-jesus-for-the-eucharistic/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) > [The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/the-slave-should-be-resigned-to-his-lot-in-obeying-his-master-he-is/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) > [Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/every-trace-of-the-old-philosophy-and-literatureof-the-ancient-world/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) > [What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/what-the-soul-is-in-the-body-let-christians-be-in-the-world/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/there-is-nothing-that-has-been-created-without-some-reason-even-if/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/it-is-certainly-a-greater-and-more-wonderful-work-to-change-the-minds/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) > [As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/as-a-moth-gnaws-a-garment-so-doth-envy-consume-a-man/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/what-is-it-to-be-a-fool-for-christ-it-is-to-control-one-s-thoughts/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/let-us-always-guard-our-tongue-not-that-it-should-always-be-silent/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) > [It brings comfort to have companions in whatever happens.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/it-brings-comfort-to-have-companions-in-whatever-happens/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) > [I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/i-do-not-think-there-are-many-among-bishops-that-will-be-saved-but/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) > [When an archer desires to shoot his arrows successfully, he first takes great pains over his posture and aligns himself accurately with his mark.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/when-an-archer-desires-to-shoot-his-arrows-successfully-he-first/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) > [Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/whether-therefore-we-receive-what-we-ask-for-or-do-not-receive-it-let/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/not-to-share-our-own-wealth-with-the-poor-is-theft-from-the-poor-and/) [Saint John Chrysostom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-john-chrysostom/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/should/saint-john-chrysostom/#itemlist", "name": "14 Should Quotes By Saint John Chrysostom", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Saint John Chrysostom" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/let-us-always-guard-our-tongue-not-that-it-should-always-be-silent/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_proper-time_let-us-always-guard-our-tongue-not-that_218035.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_proper-time_let-us-always-guard-our-tongue-not-that_218035.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_proper-time_let-us-always-guard-our-tongue-not-that_218035.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper…” — Saint John Chrysostom", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Saint John Chrysostom" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/the-slave-should-be-resigned-to-his-lot-in-obeying-his-master-he-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_masters_the-slave-should-be-resigned-to-his-lot_116426.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_masters_the-slave-should-be-resigned-to-his-lot_116426.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f1/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_masters_the-slave-should-be-resigned-to-his-lot_116426.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.” — Saint John Chrysostom", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Saint John Chrysostom" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/every-family-should-have-a-room-where-christ-is-welcome-in-the-person/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_christ_every-family-should-have-a-room-where-ch_1941182.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_christ_every-family-should-have-a-room-where-ch_1941182.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_christ_every-family-should-have-a-room-where-ch_1941182.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.” — Saint John Chrysostom", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. 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Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Saint John Chrysostom" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/things-themselves-do-not-remain-but-their-effects-do-therefore-we/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c3/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_calculating_things-themselves-do-not-remain-but-thei_304224.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c3/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_calculating_things-themselves-do-not-remain-but-thei_304224.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c3/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_calculating_things-themselves-do-not-remain-but-thei_304224.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. 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Let us be concerned first for the good order of sensations and then for the good posture of inner thoughts.'", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Saint John Chrysostom" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/when-an-archer-desires-to-shoot-his-arrows-successfully-he-first/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c9/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_archer_when-an-archer-desires-to-shoot-his-arro_255129.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c9/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_archer_when-an-archer-desires-to-shoot-his-arro_255129.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c9/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_archer_when-an-archer-desires-to-shoot-his-arro_255129.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When an archer desires to shoot his arrows successfully, he first takes great pains over his posture and…” — Saint John Chrysostom", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Saint John Chrysostom" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/for-christians-above-all-men-are-forbidden-to-correct-the-stumblings/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_authority_for-christians-above-all-men-are-forbidd_2819714.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_authority_for-christians-above-all-men-are-forbidd_2819714.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcb/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_authority_for-christians-above-all-men-are-forbidd_2819714.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary…” — Saint John Chrysostom", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows suffering. By miracles you would make yourself debtor to Him, while by suffering He may become debtor to you. And even if sufferings had no other reward than being able to bear something for that God who loves you, is not this a great reward and a sufficient remuneration? Whoever loves, understands what I say.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Saint John Chrysostom" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-john-chrysostom/if-the-lord-should-give-you-power-to-raise-the-dead-he-would-give/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00f/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_able_if-the-lord-should-give-you-power-to-rai_627137.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00f/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_able_if-the-lord-should-give-you-power-to-rai_627137.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00f/saint-john-chrysostom-2375_able_if-the-lord-should-give-you-power-to-rai_627137.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows…” — Saint John Chrysostom", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. 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Behold, you do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him! You want to see His clothing. He gives Himself to you, not just to be seen but to be touched, to be eaten, to be received within … Let all of you be ardent, fervent, enthusiastic. If the Jews stood, shoes on, staff in hand, and eating in haste, how much more vigilant should you be. 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