Saint John Chrysostom Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should take the Scriptures into our hands, and call our wife and children to join us in putting together what we have heard in church.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Children, Home, Hands

• When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Children, Parenting, Men

• A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children; again she fears for the women and children who belong to her children. ... For each of these-whether for loss of possessions, bodily illness, or undesired misfortune-she mourns and grieves no less than those who suffer.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Children, Husband

• If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Children, Mean, Skills

• The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Children, Giving, Goal

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