"I know my own soul, how feeble and……" — John Chrysostom
"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; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea."
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John Chrysostom
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28 Quotes by John Chrysostom
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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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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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Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground, for it is hard for a tree that stands…
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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 Billows Quotes
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging…
— William Cowper
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Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
— Homer
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Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow…
— Saint Augustine
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the…
— James A. Garfield
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Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his…
— William Shakespeare
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So I wonder this, as life billows smoke inside my head This little game where nothing is sure Why would…
— Dave Matthews
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The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
— Mercy Otis Warren
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I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When…
— Deb Caletti
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How much do I love thee? Go ask the deep sea How many rare gems In its coral caves be;…
— Unknown Author
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The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and…
— Herodotus
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When peace like a river, attendeth my way / When sorrow like sea billows roll / Whatever my lot, Thou…
— Unknown Author
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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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