151 Quotes by Saint John Chrysostom

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

Whatever you may do for your brother, being hungry, and a stranger, and naked, not even the devil will be able to despoil, but it will be laid up in an inviolabe treasure.

Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.

The Jews were God’s chosen people.

Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.