Quotes from St. John Chrysostom
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
- St. John Chrysostom
Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
- St. John Chrysostom
The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.
- 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
To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'
- St. John Chrysostom
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.
- St. John Chrysostom
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
- St. John Chrysostom
What is it to be a fool for Christ? It is to control one's thoughts when they stray out of line. It is to make the mind empty and free.
- St. John Chrysostom
Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.
- St. John Chrysostom
Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.
- St. John Chrysostom
The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.
- St. John Chrysostom
The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.
- St. John Chrysostom