Saint John Chrysostom Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mean, Wealth, Poor

  Saint John Chrysostom, Catharine P. Roth (1984). “On Wealth and Poverty”, p.55, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

• 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 rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men, Giving, Wealth

  Saint John Chrysostom (1842). “The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom on the Statues: Or, To the People of Antioch”, p.42

• Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Enemy, Wealth, Comrade

  "The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople: On the Statues, Or to the People of Antioch".

• 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

• In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Matter, Poverty, Obstacles

  Saint John Chrysostom, Paul William Harkins (1963). “Baptismal Instructions”, p.184, Paulist Press

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