John Chrysostom Quotes

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
John Chrysostom

Enemy, Nothing, Wealth

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.
John Chrysostom

Nature, Men, Human

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
John Chrysostom

Work, Great, Soul

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
John Chrysostom

Life, Wise, Simple

A comprehended god is no god.
John Chrysostom

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
John Chrysostom

Hell, Priests, Paved

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
John Chrysostom

Men, Power, Thinking

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
John Chrysostom

Wrong, Himself, Harm

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
John Chrysostom

Human, Poor, Reason

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
John Chrysostom

Pride, Riches, Forbidden

Slander is worse than cannibalism.
John Chrysostom

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
John Chrysostom

Women, Nothing, Through

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.
John Chrysostom

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Type: Clergyman

Born: 347

Died: 407

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