Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Self-Discovery
The desire to rule is the mother of all heresies.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Christianity
Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Humility
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple and wise; this is the angelic life.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Angels
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.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Prayer
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Work
Charity is the scope of all God’s commands.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Charity
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground, for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep its fruit until it be ripe.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Retirement
It is a shame for a man to desire honor only because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Ancestry
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. Today it is for thee, tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious everywhere. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Wealth
Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Prayer
Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Laughter
An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Insults
Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Men
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Jealousy, Envy
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
—John Chrysostom
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties
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