Saint John Chrysostom Quotes About Saints

Quotes about: Saints

• 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

• It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Saint, Impossible

• It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Anger, Saint, Excess

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

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Saint, Poverty, Reason

• Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Forgiveness, Saint, Graves

• No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Fire, Church

• God asks little, but He gives much.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Giving, Saint, Littles

• It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Cooking, Saint

• What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Father, Son

• Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to receive it; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, Heart, Catholic

• 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

• Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Soul, Teeth, Saint

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