John Chrysostom Quotes

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• The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
• 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;…
• 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…
• Christ is wont to catch every man in the way of his own craft - magicians with a star, fishers with a fish.
• As the Father useth this expression I AM, so also doth Christ, for it signifieth continuous being, irrespective of all time.
• Correct him, but not as a foe, nor as an adversary exacting a penalty, but as a physician providing medicines.
• Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground, for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep…
• Higher than every painter, higher than every sculptor and than all artists do I regard him who is skilled in the art of forming the…
• God, having placed good and evil in our power, has given us full freedom of choice; He does not keep back the unwilling, but embraces…
• Let us not so much labor to know where hell is - as how to escape it.
• 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…
• Helping a person in need is good in itself. But the degree of goodness is hugely affected by the attitude with which it is done.…
• I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if he enjoys it, he naturally wants to receive it. And…
• 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…
• 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;…
• But now, instead of organs, Christians must use the body to praise God.
• 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.
• The angels glorify; men scrutinize: angels raise their voices in praise; men in disputation: they conceal their faces with their wings; but man with a…
• After the prophets, the false prophets; after the apostles, the false apostles; after Christ, anti-Christ.
• Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

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