"Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in……" — John Chrysostom
"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 its fruit until it be ripe."
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John Chrysostom
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28 Quotes by John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom has 28 quotes on this site.
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The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
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I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the…
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The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since…
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Christ is wont to catch every man in the way of his own craft - magicians with a star, fishers…
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As the Father useth this expression I AM, so also doth Christ, for it signifieth continuous being, irrespective of all…
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Correct him, but not as a foe, nor as an adversary exacting a penalty, but as a physician providing medicines.
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Higher than every painter, higher than every sculptor and than all artists do I regard him who is skilled in…
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God, having placed good and evil in our power, has given us full freedom of choice; He does not keep…
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Let us not so much labor to know where hell is - as how to escape it.
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We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature…
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Helping a person in need is good in itself. But the degree of goodness is hugely affected by the attitude…
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I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if he enjoys it, he naturally…
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More Depart Quotes
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this…
— H.G. Wells
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when…
— Seneca the Younger
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During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned -…
— Peter Drucker
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Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by…
— Og Mandino
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force…
— Milton Friedman
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in…
— Khalil Gibran
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We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess.…
— C. D. Broad
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It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no…
— Meister Eckhart
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