The work of love…
For as heat makes things expand, so it is the work of love to expand the heart, for its power is to heat and make fervent.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Fasting is wonderful…
Fasting is wonderful, because it tramples our sins like a dirty weed, while it cultivates and raises truth like a flower.
— Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Guard our tongue…
Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Repentance raises up the fallen…
Repentance, therefore, raises up the fallen soul, which has been estranged from God, and again becomes His friend. Repentance protects the soul’s essence from the darkness, and drives away death. Repentance raises again the fallen soul, lifts up the destitute, heals the broken, and gives health to the traumatized. Let us hasten towards repentance, the promise of the Kingdom, the laver of sins, the mother of salvation.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
The Church is…
The Church is an enclosure. If you are within, the wolf does not enter; but if you leave, the beasts will seize you. Do not distance yourself from the Church; there is nothing mightier than the Church. The Church is your hope. The Church is your salvation. The Church is higher than the heavens. The Church is harder than stone. The Church is wider than the world. The Church never grows old but always renews itself.
–Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Love is the reason for my…
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
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