John Chrysostom Quotes
Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.
Chrysostom, John. "Homily 57 on the Gospel of Matthew." Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 10. Edited by Philip Schaff, Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.
Explaining the chief cause of the rising divorce rate:
He was the last Pope to hold temporal power.
Harrison was a General at the time.
Writing about President George Washington:. Bache, a grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was jailed under the Sedition Act for his writings against the government.
Referring to the Chinese immigrants:
This was the at the time, a typical assessment of the English, Welsh and Scotts about the Irish who were perceived as a lower class of nation. Most interesting was the irreligious perception of a people who would become the most faithful and orthodox of Roman Catholics.
John Chrysostom (c. 347 – 14 September 407) was an important Early Church Father who served as archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, his Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, and his ascetic sensibilities. The epithet Χρυσόστομος (Chrysostomos, anglicized as Chrysostom) means "golden-mouthed" in Greek and denotes his celebrated eloquence.
