Quotes by John Chrysostom

John Chrysostom (347–407) — Kirchenvater · Ostkirche · Türkei

Johannes Chrysostomus (347–407) war ein Kirchenvater der Spätantike, der als Prediger in Antiochia und als Patriarch von Konstantinopel wirkte. Er steht für eine wortgetreue Auslegung der Bibel, eine kompromisslose Sozialethik zugunsten der Armen sowie für seine rhetorische Brillanz, die ihm den Beinamen „Goldmund“ einbrachte. Für heutige Bibelleser bieten seine Homilien eine praxisnahe Schriftauslegung, während seine aggressiven antijüdischen Predigten bis heute scharf kritisiert werden.

Era: The Early Church

Recurring topics: Prayer & Silence, Service & Love of Neighbour, Guilt & Forgiveness, Ethical Questions, Peace & Rest, Church & Congregation, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Patience & Waiting

Quotes by John Chrysostom

No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.
John Chrysostom

Even in the marketplace or on a solitary walk, it is possible to pray often and earnestly. Even when you sit at your business, or are buying or selling, or even while you are cooking.
John Chrysostom

Do not honor Christ here with silken garments while outside he perishes of cold and nakedness in the street. God has no need of golden chalices, but of golden people.
John Chrysostom

God has established churches like harbors in the sea, so that you may take refuge there from the whirl of earthly cares and find rest and stillness.
John Chrysostom

We have lost paradise, but received heaven, so the gain is greater than the loss.
John Chrysostom

Correct him, but not as a foe, nor as an adversary exacting a penalty, but as a physician providing medicines.
John Chrysostom

Nothing makes us so like God as being always ready to forgive.
John Chrysostom

Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.
John Chrysostom

Whether our prayer is heard does not depend on the number of words, but on the fervor of the soul.
John Chrysostom

Patience is the grace of the man who could revenge himself, but chooses not to.
John Chrysostom

Higher than every painter, higher than every sculptor and than all artists do I regard him who is skilled in the art of forming the soul of children.
John Chrysostom

The book of books is like a spring that flows continuously and streams all the more abundantly the more one draws from it.
John Chrysostom

Christians are not permitted to destroy error by violence and coercion, but should bring about people's salvation through persuasion, reasonable teaching, and acts of love.
John Chrysostom

Nothing can make one a follower of Christ so much as caring for one's neighbor.
John Chrysostom

By the cross we know the gravity of sin and the greatness of God’s love toward us.
John Chrysostom

True happiness consists not in what one receives, but in what one gives.
John Chrysostom

God gave us his word as he gave Adam the garden of Eden: to work it and to keep it.
John Chrysostom

You say: What need do I have to pray? Precisely because you believe you have no need of it, you need it.
John Chrysostom

Patience is able to transform even the most savage and insolent person, making him tractable and receptive again to nobler impulses.
John Chrysostom

[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.
John Chrysostom

Let us not so much labor to know where hell is – as how to escape it.
John Chrysostom

And as in the time of building the tower [of Babel] the one tongue was divided into many; so then [at Pentecost] the many tongues frequently met in one man, and the same person used to discourse both in the Persian, and the Roman, and the Indian, and many other tongues, the Spirit sounding within him: and the gift was called the gift of tongues because he could all at once speak divers languages.
John Chrysostom

To become mature Christians, you must become familiar with Scripture!
John Chrysostom

Patience is the queen of virtues.
John Chrysostom

There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.
John Chrysostom

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Sources: die-tagespost.de, heiligenlexikon.de, katholischglauben.info

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