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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. (John Chrysostom)
Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed. View quote
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Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession. View quote
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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. View quote
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You are a stranger and a sojourner here on Earth; your true homeland is in Heaven. View quote
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Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved. View quote
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The desire to rule is the mother of heresies. View quote
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For if you change from inhumanity to alms giving, you have stretched fourth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from theaters and go to church, you have cured the lame foot. If you draw back your eyes from a harlot ... you have opened them when they were blind ... These are the greatest miracles. View quote
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When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them. View quote
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Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls. View quote
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Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries. (John Chrysostom)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to receive it; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us. View quote
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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? View quote
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It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness. View quote
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Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us. View quote
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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. View quote
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Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them. View quote
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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. View quote
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Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent. (John Chrysostom)
If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of the Lord is present, wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in the rays of the Holy Spirit. View quote
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This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good ... for nothing can so make a person an imitator of Christ as caring for neighbors. View quote
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The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life. View quote
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Glory be to God for all things! View quote
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John Chrysostom

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

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