John Chrysostom Quotes

John Chrysostom Quotes & Quotations
Name:
John Chrysostom
Type:
Clergyman
Birth year:
347

  • 1
    A comprehended god is no god. John Chrysostom
  • 2
    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. John Chrysostom
  • 3
    Hell is paved with priests' skulls. John Chrysostom
  • 4
    I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. John Chrysostom
  • 5
    Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin. John Chrysostom
  • 6
    No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong. John Chrysostom
  • 7
    Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy. John Chrysostom
  • 8
    Slander is worse than cannibalism. John Chrysostom
  • 9
    The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life. John Chrysostom
  • 10
    When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also. John Chrysostom
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