Saint John Chrysostom Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Doors, Church, Christ

• You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Blood, Hands, Defense

  "Eight Homilies Against the Jews". Book by Saint John Chrysostom (Homily 6), sourcebooks.fordham.edu.

• 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

• Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Sacrifice, Christ, Crime

  John Chrysostom (2010). “Discourses Against Judaizing Christians (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 68)”, p.26, CUA Press

• "He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: 'Simon, Simon, etc.'"

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Forgiveness, Fall, Forgiving

• It is not the man who is responsible for the offerings as they become Christ's Body and Blood; it is Christ Himself who was crucified for us. The standing figure belongs to the priest who speaks these words. The power and the grace belong to God. 'This is My Body,' he says. And these words transform the offerings.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men, Offering, Blood

• 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

  Spiritual, Free Spirit, Mind

• You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have enumerated ten honors [it bestows]! For this reason we baptize even infants, though they are not defiled by [personal] sins, so that there may be given to them holiness, righteousness, adoption, inheritance, brotherhood with Christ, and that they may be his [Christ's] members

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Thinking, Adoption, Grace

• Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Should Have, Saint, Rooms

• There is harm not only in trying to gain wealth but also in excessive concern with even the most necessary things. It is not enough to despise wealth, but you must also feed the poor and, more importantly, you must follow Christ.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Spiritual, Trying, Gains

• Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

• To love Christ -means not to be a hireling, not to look upon a noble life as an enterprise or trade, but to be a true benefactor and to do everything only for the sake of love for God.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Mean, Looks

• O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burden of Christ assists the bearers of it, because we carry not grace, but grace us.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Grateful, Grace, Comfort

  Reported in "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 98), 1895.

• Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mean, Player, Hands

• Thus abide constantly with the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that the heart swallows the Lord and the Lord the heart, and the two become one.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Jesus, Heart, Two

• This is the rule of most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good ... for nothing can so make a person an imitator of Christ as caring for neighbors.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Caring, Perfect, Definitions

• What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites us to Himself.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Sheep, Blood, Shepherds

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