John Chrysostom

“Do not be ashamed to enter again into the Church. Be ashamed when you sin. Do not be ashamed when you repent.”

“Let us learn to be masters of our appetites.”

“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.”

“If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find Him in the chalice.”

“No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.”

“To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.”

“Fasting is the support of our soul: it gives us wings to ascend on high, and to enjoy the highest contemplation.”

“Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.”

“The rich are in possession of the goods of the poor, even if they have acquired them honestly or inherit them legally.”

“Even if we have thousands of acts of great virtue to our credit, our confidence in being heard must be based on God's mercy and not on our own merits.”

“He who is not angry, whereas he has cause to be, sins.”

“This is the rule of the most perfect Christianity, its most exact definition, its highest point, namely, the seeking of the common good.”

“The church is a hospital, not a courtroom for the healthy.”

“The merciful man is the physician of his own soul.”

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

“The holy scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.”

“A rich man is not one who has much, but one who gives much. For what he gives away remains his forever.”

“Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.”

“Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.”