"Such is the way with sinners. Everything excites……" — John Chrysostom
"Such is the way with sinners. Everything excites their suspicion; they quake at every shadow; they start at every noise; they look upon every man as an enemy."
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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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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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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have…
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No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their…
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Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a…
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to…
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
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It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
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The only defense is offense, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the…
— Stanley Baldwin
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue,…
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