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No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
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As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
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The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.
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The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
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Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.
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Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
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I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish.
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Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?
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If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
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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.
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We are commanded to have only one enemy, the devil. With him never be reconciled! But with a brother, never be at enmity in thy heart.
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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.
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Not to share our own wealth with the poor is theft from the poor and deprivation of their means of life; we do not possess our own wealth, but theirs.
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Princes, Masters, Parents, Magistrates, Judges, Friends, Eniemies, faire or foule meanes cannot containe, us; but a little sicknesse will correct and amend us.
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God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.
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In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those who do not devote themselves to it.
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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.
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In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
Francis Schaeffer
John Chrysostom
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Born:
349
Died:
September 15, 407
(aged 58)
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