Quotes from St. John Chrysostom
A comprehended god is no god.
- St. John Chrysostom
Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.
- St. John Chrysostom
Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.
- St. John Chrysostom
God asks little, but He gives much.
- St. John Chrysostom
Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.
- St. John Chrysostom
Glory be to God for all things!
- St. John Chrysostom
God measures out affliction to our need.
- St. John Chrysostom
What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God.
- St. John Chrysostom
The slave should be resigned to his lot, in obeying his master he is obeying God.
- St. John Chrysostom
Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.
- St. John Chrysostom
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
- St. John Chrysostom
Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.
- St. John Chrysostom