Quotes about Chrysostom
It is impossible to be saved without the help of the Most Blessed Virgin, because those who are not saved by the justice of God are saved by the intercession of Mary.
- St. John Chrysostom
You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.
- St. John Chrysostom
Reply to Objection 3: It is not erroneous to say that men are transferred to the penalty of demons; but some erroneously stated that the demons are nothing but souls of the dead; and it is this that Chrysostom rejects.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Chrysostom at length expressed the need for the overseer of God's people to preach true doctrine and refute false teaching:
- Kevin Vanhoozer
Reading from St. John Chrysostom that the life of a bishop should be more perfect than the life of a hermit. The reason he gave was that the holiness which the monk preserves in the desert must be preserved by the bishop into the midst of the evil of the world.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.
- St. John Chrysostom