I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
- John Chrysostom
Sea, Soul, Own, Puny
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
- John Chrysostom
Reason, Divine, Strangest, Substitutes
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
- John Chrysostom
Worse, Than, Cannibalism, Slander
Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
- John Chrysostom
Hell, Hell Is, Paved, Priests
The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.
- John Chrysostom
Law, Through, Agency, Endeavour
The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
- John Chrysostom
Simple, Wise, Highest, Angelic
And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.
- John Chrysostom
Nature, Judgement, Pass, Flesh
When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.
- John Chrysostom
Church, Over, Before, Retire
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
- John Chrysostom
Men, Sin, May, Avoid
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
- John Chrysostom
Forbidden, Riches, Them, Pride
Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.
- John Chrysostom
Wealth, More, Hostile, Domestic
No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.
- John Chrysostom
Man, Harm, Does, Himself
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