Quotes by Saint John Chrysostom

Saint John Chrysostom

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

Environmental

Human Nature

Knowing

“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.'”

Fall

Forgiveness

Forgiving

A comprehended god is no god.

Atheist

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

Darkness

Light

Sun

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.

Christian

Men

Thinking

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.

Benefits

Commitment

Doe

A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children; again she fears for the women and children who belong to her children. … For each of these-whether for loss of possessions, bodily illness, or undesired misfortune-she mourns and grieves no less than those who suffer.

Children

Husband

Mother

Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard, you can lay a new foundation every moment. Abba Pimen said, To throw yourself before God, not to measure your progress, to leave behind all self-will; these are the instruments for the work of the soul. The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

Christian

Hard Work

Mother

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.

Shining

Two

Widows

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

Bears

Disposition

Insult

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Abortion

Action

Adoption

Affliction

All Things

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Angel

Anger

Animal

Archer

Arrogance

Ashamed

Atheist

August

Bears

Bees

Believe

Benefits

Bible

Bishops

Blessed

Blessing

Blood

Body

Book

Boys

Breathing

Brother

Calling

Cannibalism

Caring

Catholic

Causes

Character

Charity

Cheating

Childhood

Children

Chosen

Christ

Christian

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Quotes by Saint John Chrysostom

Saint John Chrysostom

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

A comprehended god is no god.

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.

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.

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.

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

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