Saint John Chrysostom Quotes about Soul

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

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

Saint John Chrysostom

Laughter, Soul, May

Saint John Chrysostom, Aeterna Press “Homilies of Saint John Chrysostom: On The Epistle to the Hebrews”, Aeterna Press

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

Prayer, Numbers, Soul

Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.

Saint John Chrysostom

Giving, Soul, Needs

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

Mean, Soul, Dying

Saint John Chrysostom, Sir George Prevost (1856). “Homilies: On the Statutes, or, To the people of Antioch. 1856”, p.100

Therefore, not only are their passions satanic, but their lives are diabolic. So I say to you that these are even worse than murderers, and that it would be better to die than to live in such dishonor. A murderer only separates the soul from the body, whereas these destroy the soul inside the body..... There is nothing, absolutely nothing more mad or damaging than this perversity.

Saint John Chrysostom

Passion, Mad, Soul

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

Saint John Chrysostom

Soul, Fasting, Body

Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.

Saint John Chrysostom

Soul, Teeth, Saint

Let us pass to the despotic part of the soul, spirit. We must not eliminate it utterly from the youth nor yet allow him to use it all the time. Let us train boys from earliest childhood to be patient when they suffer wrongs themselves, but, if they see another being wronged, to sally forth courageously and aid the sufferer in fitting measure.

Saint John Chrysostom

Boys, Childhood, Soul

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

Soul, Mind, Enemy

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.

Saint John Chrysostom

Sex, Men, Soul

Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom (1983). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church”