"Please listen to me, you are not paying……" — John Chrysostom
"Please listen to me, you are not paying attention. I am talking to you about the Holy Scriptures, and you are looking at the lamps and the people lighting them. It is very frivolous to be more interested in what the lamplighters are doing...After all, I am lighting a lamp too, the lamp of God's Word."
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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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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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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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