Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by John Chrysostom

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a priest John Chrysostom.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

John Chrysostom was an important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, and his ascetic sensibilities. The epithet Χρυσόστομος means "golden-mouthed" in Greek and denotes his celebrated eloquence. Chrysostom was among the most prolific authors in the early Christian Church, although both Origen of Alexandria and Augustine of Hippo exceeded Chrysostom.

Priest | 347 - 407

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

John Chrysostom

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

John Chrysostom

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

John Chrysostom

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

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.

John Chrysostom

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.

John Chrysostom

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

John Chrysostom

A comprehended god is no god.

John Chrysostom

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

John Chrysostom

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

John Chrysostom

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

John Chrysostom

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

John Chrysostom

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

John Chrysostom