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Christian Quotes by Saint John Chrysostom
- I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city on earth but…
- What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world.
- Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.
- No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.
- There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.
- Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and…
- To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a…
- Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard, you can lay…
- A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.
- In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in…
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- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion… — Saint Augustine
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
- I'm a Jewish born-again Christian. — Stephen Baldwin
- The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian… — Hans Urs von Balthasar