John Chrysostom - Man Quotes

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I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about such things, and inquire from the Holy Scriptures all these things.

John Chrysostom

For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force... it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.

John Chrysostom

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

John Chrysostom

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

John Chrysostom

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

John Chrysostom

There are many poor men and poor women: set apart some one constantly to remain there: let the poor man be though but as a guard to thy house: let him be to thee wall and fence, shield and spear. Where alms are, the devil dares not approach, nor any other evil thing.

John Chrysostom