John Chrysostom Quotes

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into the temptation in which they abide... Do not be angry at anyone and do not hate anyone, neither for their faith, nor for their shameful deeds... Do not foster hatred for the sinner, for we are all guilty... Hate his sins, and pray for him, so that you may be made like unto Christ, who had no dislike for sinners, but prayed for them.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk.

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the peoples five hundred years from now. I think you will find but few images of God, unless you want to profane the Almighty.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

Sometimes the truth isn't good enough. Sometimes people have got to have their faith rewarded.