Quotes about John Chrysostom

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

#John Chrysostom

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

#John Chrysostom

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

#John Chrysostom

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

#John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude...

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Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

#John Chrysostom

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was...

#John Chrysostom

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care...

#John Chrysostom

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

#John Chrysostom

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust...

#John Chrysostom

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

#John Chrysostom

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

#John Chrysostom