Sentences by St. John Chrysostom: Quotes and Translations - ed. 2

As bees make honey by collecting nectar from many and different blossoms, but give it a certain taste, so let us also make use of the honey of the fathers, collected at different times, but containing that same grace and that same spiritual teaching.

2)

Let's imitate the saints, neither griefs have beaten them nor peace has laxed them, as now it is happening to many of us, as with unstable people, who – at any push by the waves – get flooded with water and sink.

     603)

Martyrdom without love not only does not make you a disciple of Christ, but brings no benefit either to the one who endures [it].

     1066)

Grumbling is heavy and unbearable, it is akin close to blasphemy... Grumbling is ingratitude. The one grumbling is ungrateful to God; and the one ungrateful to God really is also a blasphemer.

     1299)

We were created not only to eat, drink and wear new clothes, but also to avoid vice and to perform virtues, being guided by divine [spiritual] wisdom.

     1300)

Nature has a measure and what is superfluous is no longer food, but rather uncleanness. Feed the body, but to not deaden it. Therefore, it is called food, so we may feed the body with it, and not destroy it.