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• Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christianity, Virtue, Mercy

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• Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Friendship, Sweet, Distance

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• Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Forgiveness, Saint, Graves

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• You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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• A comprehended god is no god.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Atheist

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• Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured, comfort those who grieve and who weep, be merciful, humble, kind, calm, patient, sympathetic, forgiving, reverent, truthful and pious, so that God might accept your fasting and might plentifully grant you the fruits of repentance.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Spiritual, Humble, Grieving

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• Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

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  Prayer, Mean, Joy

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• We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Heart, Enemy

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom (1983). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church”

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• If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Children, Mean, Skills

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• God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Perfection, Helping, Good God

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• If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Summer, Winter, Garden

  Saint John Chrysostom, Edward Budge, Charles Marriott (1842). “To the People of Antioch”, p.77

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• Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Christian, Spiritual

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• The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Fire, Breathing, Devil

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• Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Wish, Ridiculous, Opinion

  "Homilies on the Gospel of Saint John", Homily III,

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• You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.

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  Prayer, Mean, Journey

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• Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Saint, Poverty, Reason

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• Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Pride, Riches, Forbidden

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• Only those who do not fight are never wounded.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Fighting, Wounded

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• Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Satan, Mercy, Disappoint

  Saint John Chrysostom (1842). “The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople: On the Statues, Or to the People of Antioch”, p.354

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• Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the Tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a Tradition? Seek no further.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Hands, Church, Letters

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• God asks little, but He gives much.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Giving, Saint, Littles

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• Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Causes

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• Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Church, Divides

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• Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

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  Men, Self, Painter

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• Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.

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  Evil, Scary, Temptation

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