John Chrysostom Quotes

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

Grant, then, to Your servant an understanding mind to judge Your people, to distinguish between good and bad; for who can judge this vast people of yours?

My religion means so much to me and to my career. It helps me so much.

Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.

Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right also for this country. That our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan.

When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way

We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.

It is so difficult to do any work nonviolently if you don't have the constant awareness of someone who is greater than you are - someone greater who will not just fight for you but who is there to console you.

God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.

Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.

Saint John Paul II, pray for us and especially for our youth.

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

In all states of dilemma or of difficulty, prayer is an available source. The ship of prayer may sail through all temptations, doubts and fears, straight up to the throne of God; and though she may be outward bound with only griefs, and groans, and sighs, she shall return freighted with a wealth of blessings!

The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.

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

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

The White House encouraged Tom Brady to be more of a role model. They would've said more, but there was a drunken Secret Service agent streaking across the Rose Garden.

Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.