John Chrysostom Director Quotations

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

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