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1. "[On what young husbands should say to their wives:] I have taken you in my arms, and I love you, and I prefer you to my life itself. For the present life is nothing, and my most ardent dream is to spend it with you in such a way that we may be assured of not being separated in the life reserved for us... I place your love above all things, and nothing would be more bitter or painful to me than to be of a different mind than you." ~ John Chrysostom
2. "As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person]." ~ John Chrysostom
3. "The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life." ~ John Chrysostom
4. "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
5. "Slander is worse than cannibalism." ~ John Chrysostom
6. "Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts." ~ John Chrysostom
7. "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
8. "A comprehended god is no god." ~ John Chrysostom
9. "Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin." ~ John Chrysostom
10. "No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong." ~ John Chrysostom
11. "Helping a person in need is good in itself. But the degree of goodness is hugely affected by the attitude with which it is done. If you show resentment because you are helping the person out of a reluctant sense of duty, then the person may recieve your help but may feel awkward and embarrassed. This is because he will feel beholden to you. If,on the other hand, you help the person in a spirit of joy, then the help will be received joyfully. The person will feel neither demeaned nor humiliated by your help, but rather will feel glad to have caused you pleasure by receiving your help. And joy is the appropriate attitude with which to help others because acts of generosity are a source of blessing to the giver as well as the receiver." ~ John Chrysostom
12. "We follow the ways of wolves, the habits of tigers: or, rather we are worse than they. To them nature has assigned that they should be thus fed, while God has honoured us with rational speech and a sense of equity. And yet we are become worse than the wild beast." ~ John Chrysostom
13. "Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor." ~ John Chrysostom
14. "Let no one bewail his poverty,For the universal Kingdom has been revealed.Let no one weep for his iniquities,For pardon has shown forth from the grave.Let no one fear death,For the Saviour's death has set us free.He that was held prisoner of it has annihilated it.By descending into Hell, He made Hell captive.He embittered it when it tasted of His flesh.And Isaiah, foretelling this, did cry:Hell, said he, was embitteredWhen it encountered Thee in the lower regions.It was embittered, for it was abolished.It was embittered, for it was mocked.It was embittered, for it was slain.It was embittered, for it was overthrown.It was embittered, for it was fettered in chains.It took a body, and met God face to face.It took earth, and encountered Heaven.It took that which was seen, and fell upon the unseen.O Death, where is thy sting?O Hell, where is thy victory?" ~ John Chrysostom
15. "Seperti ngengat menggerogoti pakaian, begitu pula iri hati menggerogoti kita." ~ John Chrysostom
16. "Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying ‘renew yourselves' from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this." ~ John Chrysostom
17. "But now, instead of organs, Christians must use the body to praise God." ~ John Chrysostom
18. "Though the waves and the sea and the anger of princes are roused against me, they are less to me than a spider's web." ~ John Chrysostom
19. "Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is." ~ John Chrysostom
20. "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
21. "Do not say I use what is mine: you use what is alien to you; the indulgent, selfish use makes what is yours something alien; that is why I call it alien good, because you use it with a hardened heart and claim that it is right, that you alone live from what is yours." ~ John Chrysostom
22. "It is this that ruins churches, that you do not seek to hear sermons that touch the heart, but sermons that will delight your ears with their intonation and the structure of their phrases, just as if you were listening to singers and lute-players. And we preachers humor your fancies, instead of trying to crush them. We act like a father who gives a sick child a cake or an ice, or something else that is merely nice to eat--just because he asks for it; and takes no pains to give him what is good for him; and then when the doctors blame him says, 'I could not bear to hear my child cry.' . . . That is what we do when we elaborate beautiful sentences, fine combinations and harmonies, to please and not to profit, to be admired and not to instruct, to delight and not to touch you, to go away with your applause in our ears, and not to better your conduct." ~ John Chrysostom
23. "If a man cannot learn well a melody on pipe or harp,   unless he in every way strain his attention; how shall one, who sits as   a listener to sounds mystical, be able to hear with a careless soul?" ~ John Chrysostom
24. "Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude." ~ John Chrysostom
25. "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." ~ John Chrysostom
26. "If then we have angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also." ~ John Chrysostom

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