151 Quotes by Saint John Chrysostom

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God’s mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.

Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

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.

The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.

Where dance is, there is the devil.

The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.

The drunken man is a living corpse.