"The highest point of philosophy is to be……" — John Chrysostom
"The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life."
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John Chrysostom
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28 Quotes by John Chrysostom
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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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I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if he enjoys it, he naturally…
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Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you…
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Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers,…
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This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.
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I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as…
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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than…
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To fall in hell, or soar angelic, you need a pinch of psychedelic.
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