 | John Chrysostom Quote 2Description: "Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbour." - John Chrysostom #mouth #speech #railings
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 | John Chrysostom Quote 3Description: “As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a person.” - John Chrysostom #moth #envy #consume
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 | John Chrysostom Quote 4Description: “The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.” - John Chrysostom #scriptures #books #hearts
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 | John Chrysostom Quote 5Description: “By the cross we know the gravity of sin and the greatness of God's love toward us.” - John Chrysostom #cross #gravity #sin
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 | John Chrysostom Quote 6Description: “Although it be with truth that you speak evil, this is also a crime. You are a man, and yet you spit the venom of a poisonous serpent. You are a man and yet you become like a raging beast. You have been given a mouth not to wound but to heal.” - John Chrysostom #wound #speakevil #venom
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 | John Chrysostom Quote 7Description: “Though housed in a narrow prison, Paul dwelt in heaven. He accepted beatings and wounds more readily than others reach out for rewards. Sufferings he loved as much as prizes; indeed he regarded them as his prizes, and therefore called them a grace or gift.” - John Chrysostom #prison #suffering #prize
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 | John Chrysostom Quote 8Description: “If then we have angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.” - John Chrysostom #angels #demons #tutors
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 | John Chrysostom Quote 9Description: “Everywhere, wherever you may find yourself, you can set up an altar to God in your mind by means of prayer.” - John Chrysostom #altar #mind #prayer
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 | John Climacus QuoteDescription: “We know the utility of prayer from the efforts of the wicked spirits to distract us during the divine office; and we experience the fruit of prayer in the defeat of our enemies.” - John Climacus #prayer #wickedspirits #enemies
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 | John Climacus Quote 2Description: “For is anyone could see his own vices accurately without the veil of self-love, he would worry about no one else in this life, considering that he would not have time enough for mourning for himself, even though he were to live a hundred years.” - John Climacus #vices #sins #judgingothers
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 | John Climacus Quote 3Description: “The Christian is one who imitates Christ in thought, word and deed, as far as is possible for human beings, believing rightly and blamelessly in the Holy Trinity.” - John Climacus #christian #imitates #blamelessly
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 | John Climacus Quote 4Description: “Ascend, my brothers, ascend eagerly. Let your hearts' resolve be to climb. Listen to the voice of the one who says: 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of our God' (Isa. 2:3).” - John Climacus #ascend #mountain #climb
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 | John Cotton QuoteDescription: “Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.” - John Cotton #love #difficulties #burdens
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 | John Darby QuoteDescription: “It is a solemn truth, dear friends, that ‘if you have not the Spirit of Christ, you are none of his.’” - John Darby #truth #solemn #spiritofchrist
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 | John Elias QuoteDescription: "We stand in need of those fresh, powerful manifestations from heaven. We are, alas! accustomed to go on with the service of God in human strength; praying, hearing and preaching in that way!" - John Elias #manifestations #powerful #serviceofgod
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