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• Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

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  Prayer, Mean, Joy

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• Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Causes

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• The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.

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  Fire, Breathing, Devil

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• Only those who do not fight are never wounded.

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  Fighting, Wounded

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• Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity on the tortured, comfort those who grieve and who weep, be merciful, humble, kind, calm, patient, sympathetic, forgiving, reverent, truthful and pious, so that God might accept your fasting and might plentifully grant you the fruits of repentance.

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  Spiritual, Humble, Grieving

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• You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.

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  Prayer, Mean, Journey

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• Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.

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  Littles, Little Things, Faithfulness

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• You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

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  Christian, Prayer, Home

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

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  Forgiveness, Saint, Graves

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• Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

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  Pride, Riches, Forbidden

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• A comprehended god is no god.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Atheist

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• 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.

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  Anger, Saint, Excess

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• Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.

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  Laughter, Soul, May

  Saint John Chrysostom, Aeterna Press “Homilies of Saint John Chrysostom: On The Epistle to the Hebrews”, Aeterna Press

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• 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.

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  Children, Mean, Skills

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• Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.

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  Satan, Mercy, Disappoint

  Saint John Chrysostom (1842). “The Homilies of S. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople: On the Statues, Or to the People of Antioch”, p.354

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

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  Saint, Poverty, Reason

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• God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

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  Perfection, Helping, Good God

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• God asks little, but He gives much.

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  Giving, Saint, Littles

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• 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.

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  Mother, Children, Husband

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• Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

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  Mother, Prayer, Blessing

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• If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

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  Summer, Winter, Garden

  Saint John Chrysostom, Edward Budge, Charles Marriott (1842). “To the People of Antioch”, p.77

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• Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the Tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a Tradition? Seek no further.

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  Hands, Church, Letters

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

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  Christianity, Virtue, Mercy

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• A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

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  Light, Darkness, Sun

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1905). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Chrysostom: Homilies on Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon”

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• We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

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  Prayer, Praying, Sin

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