John Chrysostom Quotes

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe just so he could create this galaxy just so he could create Earth so he could create human beings so he could create a family.

The foyers now look ridiculously small to us because not all that many people used them.

This I know, that between finite and infinite there is no comparison; so that the difference between God and the greatest and most excellent created thing is no less than the difference between God and the least created thing.

The Holy Trinity should be thought of as a Communion of Divine Persons—radiating his presence throughout creation, calling unworthy human beings to be his friends, and infusing into them his love so that they might love with it.

If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!

Human beings are partners of the Almighty in bringing life into the world, and we are his partners also in healing.

I mean, everything that is upon this earth, even from a worm or a caterpillar that blossoms into a butterfly, you know, these things are just amazing.

Ants are a curious race

If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.

It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.

It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

Man is greater than the gods.