Quote

Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

Saint John Chrysostom

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Saint John Chrysostom
Devil
Return
Fire
Terrifying
Like
Lions
Breathing
Table
Tables
Catholic

More quotes by Saint John Chrysostom

Image
The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
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
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
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.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
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.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.
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
An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
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
Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.
Saint John Chrysostom
Image
What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.
Saint John Chrysostom