Quotes from St. John Chrysostom
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.
— St. John Chrysostom
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
— St. John Chrysostom
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.
— St. John Chrysostom
Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.
— St. John Chrysostom
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
— St. John Chrysostom
I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city on earth but to the heavenly Jerusalem.
— St. John Chrysostom
Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.
— St. John Chrysostom
A comprehended god is no god.
— St. John Chrysostom
God asks little, but He gives much.
— St. John Chrysostom
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
— St. John Chrysostom
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.
— St. John Chrysostom
There is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
— St. John Chrysostom