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.
– Saint John Chrysostom
Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
– Saint 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.
– Saint John Chrysostom
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
– Saint John Chrysostom
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
– Saint John Chrysostom
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
– Saint John Chrysostom
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
– Saint John Chrysostom
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
– Saint John Chrysostom
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
– Saint 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.
– Saint John Chrysostom
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
– Saint John Chrysostom
The idea we should have of the rich and covetous - they are truly as robbers who, standing in the public highway, despoil the passersby.
– Saint 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.