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• ...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

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  Knowing, Environmental, Human Nature

  Saint John Chrysostom (1986). “Homilies on Genesis”, p.100, CUA Press

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• "He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: 'Simon, Simon, etc.'"

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  Forgiveness, Fall, Forgiving

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• The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

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  Scripture, Monk, Holy

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• One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• From the creation learn to admire thy Lord! And if any of the things thou see exceed thy comprehension, and thou are not able to find the reason thereof, yet for this glorify the Creator, that the wisdom of these works surpass thine understanding.

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  Understanding, Environmental, Able

  Saint John Chrysostom (1842). “The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom on the Statues: Or, To the People of Antioch”, p.207

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• What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

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  Prayer, Father, Son

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• Yet, when we must put aside our wrath, quench our envy, soften our anger, offer our prayers, and show a disposition which is reasonable, mild, kindly, and loving, how could poverty stand in our way? For we accomplish these things not by spending money but by making the correct choice.

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  Prayer, Wrath, Envy

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• Please listen to me - you are not paying attention. I am talking to you about the Holy Scriptures, and you are looking at the lamps and the people lighting them. It is very frivolous to be more interested in what the lamplighters are doing... After all, I am lighting a lamp too - the lamp of God's Word.

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  Talking, People, Lamps

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• This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.

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  Teacher, Mind, Doe

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1899). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the apostles and the Epistle to the Romans”

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• For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things, and most of all when this is done in matters relating to divine worship and the glory of God.

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  Mind, Purpose, Done

  Saint John Chrysostom, John Keble, Hubert Kestell Cornish, John Medley (1839). “The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople on the First Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians: Hom. 1-24. Pt. 2. Hom. 25-44”, p.92

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• There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough to despise wealth, but you must also feed the poor and, more importantly, you must follow Christ.

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  Spiritual, Trying, Gains

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• Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?

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  Mean, Player, Hands

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• If we were not passionately inclined to money or to vainglory, then we would not fear death or poverty. We would not know enmity or hatred, and we would not suffer from the sorrows of ourselves or others.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

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  Sacrifice, Christ, Crime

  John Chrysostom (2010). “Discourses Against Judaizing Christians (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 68)”, p.26, CUA Press

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• O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burden of Christ assists the bearers of it, because we carry not grace, but grace us.

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  Grateful, Grace, Comfort

  Reported in "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 98), 1895.

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• Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.

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  Two, Shining, Widows

  Saint John Chrysostom, Paul William Harkins (1963). “Baptismal Instructions”, p.185, Paulist Press

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• Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

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  Retirement, Tree, Fruit

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• What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.

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  Gnats, Creation, Humans

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• Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure.

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  Boys, Childhood, Soul

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• If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

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  Angel, Sober, Demon

  Saint John Chrysostom, Sir George Prevost (1843). “Homilies: On the Epistles of St. Paul, the Apostle, to the Philippians, Colassians and Thessalonians. 1843”, p.219

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• I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if we enjoy it, we naturally wants to receive it. And if we want to receive it, we cannot help but being distraught at losing it. Those who are in love with applause have their spirits starved not only when they are blamed off-hand, but even when they fail to be constantly praised.

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  Hands, Want, Spirit

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• It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.

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  Soul, Mind, Enemy

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• It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

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  Men, Honor, Desire

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• The Jews were God's chosen people.

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  People, Jew, Chosen

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• Let us not overlook so great a gain.

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  Gains, Alms

  Saint John Chrysostom, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Homilies of Saint John Chrysostom: On the Acts of the Apostles”, p.493, Aeterna Press

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