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Quotes from Saint John Chrysostom

I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
A comprehended god is no god.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
God asks little, but He gives much.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Glory be to God for all things!
~ Saint John Chrysostom
God measures out affliction to our need.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.
~ Saint John Chrysostom