151 Quotes by Saint John Chrysostom

The bee is more honored than other animals not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

Only those who do not fight are never wounded.

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.

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.

Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.

Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.