John Chrysostom Quotes

Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

The devil made me do it.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. He thus leads them to eternal perdition. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do, and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.

Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.

Tell me something wicked.

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

A vow is a snare for sin

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves off from our Creator in both soul and body. Did we get eyes to serve lust, the tongue to speak evil, ears to hear evil, a throat for gluttony, a stomach to be gluttony's ally, hands to do violence, genitals for unchaste excesses, feet for an erring life? Was the soul put in the body to think up traps, fraud, and injustice? I don't think so.

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.