Quote

For nothing so much disturbs the mind, though it be done for some beneficial purpose, as to innovate and introduce strange things, and most of all when this is done in matters relating to divine worship and the glory of God.

Saint John Chrysostom

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Saint John Chrysostom
Done
Worship
Disturbs
Much
Glory
Innovate
Mind
Divine
Relating
Things
Strange
Introduce
Though
Catholicism
Purpose
Beneficial
Nothing
Introducing
Matter
Matters

More quotes by Saint John Chrysostom

Image
It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
Let us not overlook so great a gain.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
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.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
God asks little, but He gives much.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
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.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
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.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
A man's readiness and commitment are not enough if he does not enjoy help from above as well equally help from above is no benefit to us unless there is also commitment and readiness on our part.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
If you would rise, shun luxury, for luxury lowers and degrades.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.
Saint John Chrysostom