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Saint John Chrysostom

John Chrysostom (/ˈkrɪsəstəm, krɪˈsɒstəm/; Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος; c. 349 – 14 September 407), Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, and his ascetic sensibilities. The epithet Χρυσόστομος (Chrysostomos, anglicized as Chrysostom) means "golden-mouthed" in Greek and denotes his celebrated eloquence. Chrysostom was among the most prolific authors in the early Christian Church, exceeded only by Augustine of Hippo in the quantity of his surviving writings.

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Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

Ashamed, Repent, Sin, Sins Not

Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.

Dost, Mercy, Neighbor, Wish

The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.

Altar, Breathing, Devil, Fire, Lions

An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.

Bears, Insult, Disposition, Bear, Sustained

Such is friendship, that through it we love places and seasons; for as bright bodies emit rays to a distance, and flowers drop their sweet leaves on the ground around them, so friends impart favor even to the places where they dwell. With friends even poverty is pleasant. Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts; they only can know who have experienced. A friend is dearer than the light of heaven, for it would be better for us that the sun were exhausted than that we should be without friends.

Distance, Friendship, Know, Poverty, Seasons, Sweet

If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.

Christian, Fall, Instant, Resurrection, Weakness

Only those who do not fight are never wounded.

Fight, Fighting, Wounded

Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them.

Would Be, Deeds, Action, Show, Superfluous

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Wish, Ridiculous, Opinion, Like, Seek

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

Christian, Holy, Inspirational, Knowledge, Open, Religious

Endurance is the queen of all virtues.

Endurance, Queen, Queens, Virtue, Virtues

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Silence, Silent, Speak, Time, Tongue

Glory be to God for all things!

All Things, Glory, God, Things

You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

Accord, Christian, Church, Home, Prayer, Souls

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.

Blessing, Mother, Panoply, Prayer, Unobscured, Unruffled

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.

Fool, Free Spirit, Make, Mind, Spiritual, Stray

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. '

Abortion, Already, Born, Doe, Fetus, Life

What the soul is in the body, let Christians be in the world.

Christian, Faith, Inspiration, Let, Soul, World

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

Earth, Face, Literatureof, Philosophy, Scary, World

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

Doe, Harm, He Man, Man, Men, Wrong

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