Best Saint John Chrysostom Sayings
- Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude. Achieved
- Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries. Causes
- Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor. Dost
- 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… Better
- Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow him to… Aid
- God asks little, but He gives much. Asks
- Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will… All
- We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should… Business
- It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling… Alone
- Do not the angels differs from us in this respect, that they do not want so many things as we do? Therefore the less we… Angel
- You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from… Accord
- Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as… Charity
- I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about such things, and inquire from the Holy Scriptures all these… All
- If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the… Backsliding
- Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears. Christian
- No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger. Anger
- Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not… Ashamed
- For if you change from inhumanity to alms giving, you have stretched fourth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from theaters and go… Alms
- Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil! Breathing
- We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great… Answer
- You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed,… All
- Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels. Camels
- Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts Absurd
- Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as… All
- When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to… Calling
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