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This text reads like a biographical sketch about St. John Chrysostom (written in the third person), not words from Chrysostom himself. It may belong to a preface or life of Chrysostom by another author. If you can identi…
A bright, cheerful, gentle soul; a sensitive heart, a temperament open to emotion and impulse; and all this elevated, refined, transformed by the touch of heave…— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
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I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish: and the reason is, that it is an affair that requires a great mind.— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
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While the tongue through shame often pours not forth all its wickedness at once, the heart having no human witness, fearlessly gives birth to whatever evils it …— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
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It is not a head in a charger that the dancers of our time ask, but the souls of them that sit at the feast. For in making them slaves, and leading them to unla…— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
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God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul th…— Charles SpurgeonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
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I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.— Charles SpurgeonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Goodreads only. We have not verified it against a primary C.S. Lewis work (book, essay, or letter). If you can locate the exact publication and locator, please add a source proposal!
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”— C.S. LewisView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "Nothing is more miserable than those people who never failed to atta…
Nothing is more miserable than those people who never failed to attack their own salvation. When there was need to observe the Law, they trampled it under foot.…— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "The Priest is the common father, as it were, of all the world; it is…
The Priest is the common father, as it were, of all the world; it is proper therefore that he should care for all, even as God, Whom he serves.— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burde…
O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burde…— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "One who knows that he is in need, is very grateful when he obtains a…
One who knows that he is in need, is very grateful when he obtains assistance; but one who has not a sense of his need, will never have a plain and clear sense …— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "Nothing does so much turn our life upside down, as delay and procras…
Nothing does so much turn our life upside down, as delay and procrastination in the performance of our good works. Nay, this has often caused us to lose all.— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "Wherever impudent assurance exists, it has but one object in view, t…
Wherever impudent assurance exists, it has but one object in view, to speak at all hazards, it cares not what.— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "He that practiceth showing mercy to him that needeth, will soon ceas…
He that practiceth showing mercy to him that needeth, will soon cease from covetousness, he who continues in giving to the poor, will soon cease from anger, and…— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "Do not now, I warn you, seize upon the privilege of the Only Begotte…
Do not now, I warn you, seize upon the privilege of the Only Begotten. For Him is the throne of judgment reserved. Would you however be a judge? You have a cour…— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "Abstinence is the mother of pleasure as well as health, while replet…
Abstinence is the mother of pleasure as well as health, while repletion is the source and root not only of diseases, but of displeasure. For where there is sati…— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Chrysostom homily or treatise (NPNF/CCEL). Opening for reference: "A servant, indeed, one will be able perhaps to bind down by fear; na…
A servant, indeed, one will be able perhaps to bind down by fear; nay, not even for him, for he will soon leave you. But the partner of one's life, the mother o…— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote currently cites Wikiquote only. We have not verified it against a primary Spurgeon sermon or published work (CCEL sermon archive, etc.). If you can locate the exact sermon or chapter, please add a source propo…
Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.— Charles SpurgeonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This was re-attributed from E.M. Bounds to Thomas Goodwin (Bounds cites Goodwin on Ephesians). We linked Goodwin's Ephesians exposition generally but have not pinned the exact sermon or page for this wording. If you can…
Now the kingdom of power, glory experienced by the Church and Christ is the more endeared and enriched to us by our rescue from the empire of Satan and the worl…— Thomas GoodwinView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This passage was stored under E.M. Bounds but is credited to George Matheson in Bounds' book Satan. We have not yet matched it to a specific Matheson essay or published volume. If you know which work it comes from, pleas…
We are apt to think that Satan is most powerful in crowded thoroughfares. It is a mistake. I believe the temptations of life are always most dangerous in the wi…— George MathesonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This line was stored under E.M. Bounds but appears to be Richard Newton's words (Bounds cites Newton in Power Through Prayer). We have not yet found the original Newton sermon, letter, or publication with this exact word…
When I can find my heart in frame and liberty for prayer, everything else is comparatively easy.— Richard NewtonView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This prayer passage is widely attributed to St. John Chrysostom in devotional literature (including E.M. Bounds), but we could not find it verbatim in the standard patristic collections we checked. It may be paraphrased,…
The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it had bridled the rage of lions, hushed the anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements,…— St. John ChrysostomView quote and add a source - Research notepostmilstill-bot·
This quote is widely attributed to A.W. Tozer online, but our search did not find it verbatim in The Pursuit of God or other published works we checked. It may be a sermon excerpt, compilation paraphrase, or misattributi…
“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're st…— A.W. TozerView quote and add a source