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Saint John Chrysostom Inspirational Quotes (107)

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Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.
Saint John Chrysostom
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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.
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Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.
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Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.
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If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of the Lord is present, wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in the rays of the Holy Spirit.
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God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.
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The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.
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God asks little, but He gives much.
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I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.
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This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise this is the angelic life.
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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.
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A friend is more to be longed for than the light I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends better to live in darkness, than to be without friends
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What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?
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He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.
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If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.
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Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure.
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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.
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I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family the believer belongs to no city on earth but to the heavenly Jerusalem.
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It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
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If we were not passionately inclined to money or to vainglory, then we would not fear death or poverty. We would not know enmity or hatred, and we would not suffer from the sorrows of ourselves or others.
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No matter how just your words may be, when you speak with anger, you ruin all: no matter how boldly you speak, how fairly reprove, or what not.
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Him who is dead and gone honor with remembrance, not with tears.
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When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.
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How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and nourishment.
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