"Let us not so much labor to know……" — John Chrysostom

"Let us not so much labor to know where hell is - as how to escape it."

— John Chrysostom

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28 Quotes by John Chrysostom

John Chrysostom has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since…
Christ is wont to catch every man in the way of his own craft - magicians with a star, fishers…
As the Father useth this expression I AM, so also doth Christ, for it signifieth continuous being, irrespective of all…
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…
Higher than every painter, higher than every sculptor and than all artists do I regard him who is skilled in…
God, having placed good and evil in our power, has given us full freedom of choice; He does not keep…
We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature…
Helping a person in need is good in itself. But the degree of goodness is hugely affected by the attitude…
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 Escape Quotes

This quote is filed under Escape Quotes, one of 1,931 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact… — Antonin Artaud
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in… — Marcus Aurelius
Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed...… — David Bailey
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. — Henry Ward Beecher

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