Saint John Chrysostom Quotes About Angels

Quotes about: Angels

• When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Angel, Sanctuary

• This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Wise, Philosophy, Angel

• When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no longer to think that you are amongst men; but believe that there are troops of angels and archangels standing by you, and trembling with respect before the sovereign Master of Heaven and earth. Therefore, when you are in church, be there in silence, fear, and veneration.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Believe, Angel, Men

• 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

  Christian, Anger, Angel

• Consider how august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and archangels throng around, when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their blaze the throne, that a mortal may approach with unrestrained confidence, and converse with heaven's dread Sovereign! O, what honor was ever conferred like this?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Angel, August

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 459, 1895.

• Do not the angels differs from us in this respect, that they do not want so many things as we do? Therefore the less we need, the more we are on our way to them; the more we need, the more we sink down to this perishable life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Angel, Needs, Denial

  Saint John Chrysostom, Charles Marriott (1852). “The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, on the Gospel of St. John: Hom. xlii-lxxxviii”, p.711

• If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Angel, Sober, Demon

  Saint John Chrysostom, Sir George Prevost (1843). “Homilies: On the Epistles of St. Paul, the Apostle, to the Philippians, Colassians and Thessalonians. 1843”, p.219

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