151 Quotes by Saint John Chrysostom

Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

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.

Woman -a foe of friendship, an inescapable punishment, a necessary evil.

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

To destroy the fetus ‘is something worse than murder.’ The one who does this ‘does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.’

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.