Author of quotes: John Chrysostom

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

What kind of forgiveness, tell me, will you receive, what justification, when every day and hour you see so much evidence of His providence, and because of the seeming inequality in the division of wealth and poverty, you condemn, and, moreover, unjustly, the order in the universe? Meanwhile, if you investigated this very phenomenon with due disposition and attentive thought, then, even in the complete absence of any other evidence of God's providence, the very wealth and poverty would prove it very clearly. In fact, destroy poverty, and you will destroy all order in life and upset our life: then there will be no shipbuilder, no helmsman, no farmer, no steward, no weaver, no shoemaker, no carpenter, no blacksmith, no tanner, no a baker, and none of these artisans, and without them everything will be upset with us. Now poverty serves as the best teacher for each of them, as if sitting with each of them, and even against their will inducing them to work. And if everyone were rich, then everyone would begin to live in idleness, and then everything would be upset and perish.

When it was necessary to keep the law, they trampled it down; and now that the law has ceased to operate, they persist in keeping it.

Truly, there is nothing better in life than the help of a friend and mutual joy.

And nothing gives such respect as virtue does, respect not forced, respect not feigned and not covered by any mask of deceit, but true, sincere, and not changed by any difficult circumstances.

So, let's educate our children in such a way that they can face any problem and not be surprised when difficulties arise.

There is no higher art than the art of education. A wise educator creates a living image, looking at which God and people rejoice.

Where there is love for God, all evil escapes from there ...

Debauchery comes from nothing more than a lack of love, and the flame of love burns away spiritual impurity.

Teach children by example. He is a hundred times stronger than edifying words and teachings. "The corruption of children does not come from anything else than from the insane attachment (of the parents) to the worldly."

The soul is nature rational, and spiritual, bestadvice, which is constantly in operation, dearest all over the world, matchless and indescribable beauty, the essence, having affinity with heaven - is, however, not Divine nature, but akin to heavenly and incorporeal beings. The soul of man is so splendidly that is incomparable to any natural beauty. If it was possible bodily eyes to see the beauty of the soul, no earthly beauty could compare with her.

Always abstain from yelling, and you never come to anger.

From the house where every day the gospel is read, the daemon runs.

Love is the best thing that can happen in life. Love is God!
No word enough to truly depict the love, as it is not earthly, but heavenly origin... even the language of Angels is not able perfectly to explore her, as she continuously comes from the great mind of God.