John Chrysostom quotes - page 11

When a husband and wife are united in marriage, they no longer seem like something earthly, but rather like the image of God Himself. (John Chrysostom)
The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together. Men will take up arms and even sacrifice their lives for the sake of this love. View quote
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Let everything take second place to our care of our children, our bringing them up to the discipline and instruction of the Lord. If from the beginning we teach them to love true wisdom, they will have great wealth and glory than riches can provide... He is truly rich who does not desire great possessions, or surround himself with wealth, but who requires nothing...Don't think that only monks need to learn the Bible; Children about to go out into the world stand in greater need of Scriptural knowledge. View quote
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Everywhere, wherever you may find yourself, you can set up an altar to God in your mind by means of prayer. View quote
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Not only the mouth must fast, but also the eye, the ear, the hands, the feet, and all the members of our body. The fasting of the mouth is in vain if the heart is full of malice. View quote
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Prayer is an even more powerful medicine for the healing of our soul. In prayer we turn to the Healer of our souls and ask that His healing be complete and final, because "He alone is able to heal, he who fashioned our hearts alone; and who understands all our works.” Prayer wipes away our sins and heals our wounds: "Pray at every hour, and neither lose heart when you are praying, nor ask for God's compassion lightly, and He will not turn away from you when you persist, but He will forgive you your sins and grant you your requests. View quote
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Son, fear God, and apart from Him, fear nothing else! View quote
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Nothing is so apt to draw men under teaching, as to love, and be loved. View quote
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When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also. View quote
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Do not now, I warn you, seize upon the privilege of the Only Begotten. For Him is the throne of judgment reserved. Would you however be a judge? You have a court of judgment which has great profit, and bears no blame. Make consideration, as judge, to sit down upon your conscience, and bring before it all your transgressions, search out the sins of your soul, and exact with strictness the account thereof, and say, wherefore did you dare to do this and that? ... Answer for yourself, not to accuse; look to your own matters, do not those of others. View quote
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It is not a head in a charger that the dancers of our time ask, but the souls of them that sit at the feast. For in making them slaves, and leading them to unlawful loves, and besetting them with harlots, they do not take off the head, but slay the soul... For you will not surely tell me, that when full of wine, and drunken, and looking at a woman who is dancing and uttering base words, thou dost not feel anything towards her, neither art hurried on to profligacy, overcome by your lust... For though the daughter of Herodias be not present, yet the devil, who then danced in her person, in theirs also holds his choirs now, and departs with the souls of those guests taken captive. (John Chrysostom)
One who knows that he is in need, is very grateful when he obtains assistance; but one who has not a sense of his need, will never have a plain and clear sense of the benefit. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God. View quote
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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.' View quote
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What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God. View quote
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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. View quote
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Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil! View quote
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After sin comes shame; courage follows repentance. Satan upsets the order; he gives courage to sin and shame to repentance. View quote
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O woe! You are in the Divine Liturgy, and while the Royal Table is prepared, while the Lamb of God is sacrificed for your sake, while the priest is struggling for your salvation, you are indifferent. At the time when the six-winged Seraphim cover their faces from awe and all the heavenly powers together with the priest beseech God for you, at the moment the fire of the Holy Spirit descends from Heaven and the blood of Christ is shed from His immaculate side in the holy Chalice, at this moment, I wonder, doesn't your conscience censure you for your lack of attention? (John Chrysostom)

John Chrysostom

Occupation: Clergyman
Born: 349
Died: 407
Quotes count: 271
Wikipedia: John Chrysostom

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