Top 150 Saint John Chrysostom Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

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2. “If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

3. “Fasting of the body is food for the soul.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

4. “Glory be to God for all things!”

— Saint John Chrysostom

5. “We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

6. “No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

7. “The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

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

— Saint John Chrysostom

9. “Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

10. “When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

11. “Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

12. “God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

13. “Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

14. “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.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

15. “Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

16. “The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

17. “Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

18. “It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

19. “It is impossible to be saved without the help of the Most Blessed Virgin, because those who are not saved by the justice of God are saved by the intercession of Mary.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

20. “The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

21. “Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

22. “The Jews were God’s chosen people.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

23. “Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

24. “The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

25. “Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

26. “Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

27. “Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

28. “To destroy the fetus ‘is something worse than murder.’ The one who does this ‘does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.’”

— Saint John Chrysostom

29. “Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

30. “It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

31. “Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

32. “Thus abide constantly with the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that the heart swallows the Lord and the Lord the heart, and the two become one.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

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

— Saint John Chrysostom

34. “God asks little, but He gives much.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

35. “Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

36. “You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

37. “A comprehended god is no god.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

38. “An insult is either sustained or destroyed, not by the disposition of those who insult, but by the disposition of those who bear it.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

39. “Slander is worse than cannibalism.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

40. “Only those who do not fight are never wounded.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

41. “Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to receive it; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

42. “Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

43. “The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

44. “Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

45. “How many of you say: I should like to see His face, His garments, His shoes. You do see Him, you touch Him, you eat Him. He gives Himself to you, not only that you may see Him, but also to be your food and nourishment.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

46. “Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

47. “The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

48. “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.”

— Saint John Chrysostom

49. “What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?”

— Saint John Chrysostom

50. “What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.”

— Saint John Chrysostom