Saint John Chrysostom Quotes - Page 4

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• Endurance is the queen of all virtues.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Queens, Endurance, Virtue

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• You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have enumerated ten honors [it bestows]! For this reason we baptize even infants, though they are not defiled by [personal] sins, so that there may be given to them holiness, righteousness, adoption, inheritance, brotherhood with Christ, and that they may be his [Christ's] members

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Thinking, Adoption, Grace

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• Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Sins Not, Sin, Ashamed

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• Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Evil, Doe

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• What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Christian, Inspiration

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• The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Pain, Loss, Heaven

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• It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Saint, Impossible

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• The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Children, Giving, Goal

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• What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Spiritual, Free Spirit, Mind

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• This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Wise, Philosophy, Angel

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• Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Soul, Teeth, Saint

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• A man's readiness and commitment are not enough if he does not enjoy help from above as well; equally help from above is no benefit to us unless there is also commitment and readiness on our part.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Commitment, Doe, Benefits

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• Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Punishment, Evil, Necessary Evil

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• In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Anger, Angel

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• Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Prayer, Blessing

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• What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Faith, Brother, Inspiration

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• It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Cooking, Saint

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• When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, New Year, Prayer

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• Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Men, Credit

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• 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

  Memories, Thinking, Arrogance

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• Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• How many there are who still say, 'I want to see His shape, His image, His clothing, His sandals.' Behold, you do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him! You want to see His clothing. He gives Himself to you, not just to be seen but to be touched, to be eaten, to be received within .... Let all of you be ardent, fervent, enthusiastic. If the Jews stood, shoes on, staff in hand, and eating in haste, how much more vigilant should you be. They were about to go to Palestine; ... you are about to go to heaven.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Hands, Shoes, Giving

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• The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Wish, Mercy, Neighbor

  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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• I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Book, Heart, Character

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