Inspirational Quotes by John Chrysostom
“Para que esto no os acontezca (no me cansaré de repetirlo), esforzad vuestro ánimo, para que no tengáis que oír lo que Pablo dijo a los fieles hebreos: Os habéis tornado torpes de oídos. Quien es torpe de oído y débil, lo mismo se cansa con un discurso largo que con uno corto; y piensa ser difíciles de entender las cosas que de suyo son claras y manifiestamente fáciles. Que nadie aquí sea de éstos; sino que, habiendo echado de sí todos los cuidados del siglo, escuche esta enseñanza.”
“Fábrica de medicinas espirituales es la iglesia, para que aquí curemos las heridas que allá afuera recibimos; pero no para que de aquí salgamos a recibir nuevas heridas. Si no atendemos al Espíritu Santo, que nos habla, no sólo no nos limpiaremos de los pecados pasados, sino que contraeremos otros nuevos.”
“(Jn. 3, 15) Para que todo el que cree en él no perezca, sino que tenga la vida eterna. Advierte el motivo de la cruz y de la salvación de ahí originada. ¿Adviertes cómo consuena la figura con la realidad? Allá en el desierto los judíos evitaban la muerte, pero era la muerte temporal; acá los fieles evitan la muerte, pero la eterna. Allá la serpiente suspendida de un palo curaba las mordeduras de las serpientes. Acá Jesús crucificado curaba las llagas causadas por el dragón infernal. Allá quien veía a la serpiente con sus ojos corporales se curaba; acá quien ve con los ojos de la mente se libra de todos sus pecados. Allá era bronce el que modelado en forma de serpiente pendía de un palo; acá pende de la cruz el cuerpo del Señor modelado por el Espíritu Santo. Allá la serpiente mordía y la serpiente curaba; acá la muerte mató y la muerte dio la vida. Pero la serpiente que allá mataba tenía veneno; mientras que acá el que salvaba no lo tenía.”
“Natanael, como hombre que es, inquiere; Jesús, como Dios que es, le contesta: Ya te vi anteriormente. Como Dios, ya conocía de antemano la moderación de costumbres de Natanael, aunque no como hombre que le hubiera seguido los pasos.”
“Pero el que es amado no quiere que se le muestre el amor en solas palabras, sino además con las obras. Si nos reducimos a meras palabras y no procedemos como suelen los que aman, será cosa ridícula no sólo ante Dios, sino también ante los hombres. ¿Cómo confesaremos el amor con simples palabras y en los hechos procederemos al contrario? Resultará eso inútil y además dañoso.”
“Es que nada oscurece y perturba la mente tanto como el ambicionar las cosas presentes.”
“Así como nosotros anhelamos el alimento, así anhela El nuestra salvación.”
“Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.”
“Secede not from the Church: for nothing is stronger than the Church. Thy hope is the Church; thy salvation is the Church; thy refuge is the Church. It is higher than the heavens and wider than the earth. It never grows old, but is ever full of vigour. Wherefore Holy Writ pointing to its strength and stability calls it a mountain”
― John Chrysostom ,
from Defence of Eutropius
“God, having placed good and evil in our power, has given us full freedom of choice; He does not keep back the unwilling, but embraces the willing.”
“As the Father useth this expression I AM, so also doth Christ, for it signifieth continuous being, irrespective of all time.”
topics: Christ
“Christ is wont to catch every man in the way of his own craft - magicians with a star, fishers with a fish.”
“Charity is, indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us to God Himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.”
topics: Charity
“The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.”
topics: Charity
“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.”
“No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.”
topics: Anger
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John Chrysostom (349 - 407)
Read freely text sermons and articles by the speaker John Chrysostom in text and pdf format Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, and his ascetic sensibilities. The epithet Χρυσόστομος (Chrysostomos, anglicized as Chrysostom) means "golden-mouthed" in Greek and given for his celebrated eloquence.The Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches honor him as a saint and count him among the Three Holy Hierarchs, together with Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzus. He is recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church as a saint and as a Doctor of the Church. Churches of the Western tradition, including the Roman Catholic Church, some Anglican provinces, and some Lutheran churches, commemorate him on 13 September. Some other Lutheran churches and Anglican provinces commemorate him on the traditional Eastern feast day of 27 January. Chrysostom's extant homiletical works are vast, including many hundreds of exegetical homilies on both the New Testament (especially the works of Saint Paul) and the Old Testament (particularly on Genesis). Among his extant exegetical works are sixty-seven homilies on Genesis, fifty-nine on the Psalms, ninety on the Gospel of Matthew, eighty-eight on the Gospel of John, and fifty-five on the Acts of the Apostles.
John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father. He is known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, and his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders.
Chrysostom is known in Christianity chiefly as a preacher, theologian and liturgist, particularly in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
During a time when city clergy were subject to criticism for their high lifestyle, John was determined to reform his clergy in Constantinople. These efforts were met with resistance and limited success. He was an excellent preacher. As a theologian, he has been and continues to be very important in Eastern Christianity, and is generally considered the most prominent doctor of the Greek Church, but has been less important to Western Christianity.
His writings have survived to the present day more so than any of the other Greek Fathers. He rejected the contemporary trend for allegory, instead speaking plainly and applying Bible passages and lessons to everyday life.