10 best quotes by Saint John Chrysostom

"The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much."

"No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great."

"The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others."

"When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous, we instill virtue into their souls and reveal the image of God within them."

"God asks little, but He gives much."

"A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one, and wonder not, for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished than that we should be without friends."

"Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave."

"Hell is paved with the skulls of priests."

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

"Almsgiving above all is the mother of love, of that love which is characteristic of Christianity, which is greater than all miracles, by which the disciples of Christ are manifest."