Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.
![As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/john-chrysostom-61108.jpg)
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].
Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.
Everywhere, wherever you may find yourself, you can set up an altar to God in your mind by means of prayer.
No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.
We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.
But now, instead of organs, Christians must use the body to praise God.
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.
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.
What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.
A comprehended god is no god.
When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.
In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.
What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.
It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.
Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame it, it will devastate all things even corrupting the soul.
Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.
To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'
When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.
God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.
Though the waves and the sea and the anger of princes are roused against me, they are less to me than a spider’s web.
Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?
Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.
Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts
We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.
