John Chrysostom Quotes

The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see realized; therefore they want to set up a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from selfishness, but each one 'from love.' Love is to rule.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Doing Good Is My Religion

Kindness is more than a virtue. It is a source of strength.

I believe there's a place for goodness and love in everything I do.

Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.

Chastity without charity is a lamp without oil.

The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.