John Chrysostom Quotes

Evil changes everybody!

The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

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

The Devil may also make use of morality.

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.

The devil's name is dullness.

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.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

I do believe quite strongly in evil.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

The devil made me do it.