Saint John Chrysostom Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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

• 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

• Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christianity, Virtue, Mercy

• Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Powerful, Anger

• Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and His love for men. Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Men, Credit

• Endurance is the queen of all virtues.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Queens, Endurance, Virtue

• It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men, Honor, Desire

• Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Teacher, Humility

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