Quotes of St. John Chrysostom - somelinesforyou

“ Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812 I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Seeing, then, it is no longer the fisherman, the son of Zebedee, but He who knoweth "the deep things of God" (I Cor. ii. 10), the Holy Spirit, I mean, that striketh this lyre, let us hearken accordingly. For he will say nothing to us as a man, but what he saith, he will say from the depths of the Spirit. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Charity is the scope of all God's commands. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Charity is the scope of all God's commands. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

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

- St. John Chrysostom

“ The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ 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. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

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

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Seeing, then, it is no longer the fisherman, the son of Zebedee, but He who knoweth "the deep things of God" (I Cor. ii. 10), the Holy Spirit, I mean, that striketh this lyre, let us hearken accordingly. For he will say nothing to us as a man, but what he saith, he will say from the depths of the Spirit. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ 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. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. ”

- St. John Chrysostom
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