Quotes from St. John Chrysostom

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.

The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

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.

The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.

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.

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.