Words from the Saints -- November 19, 2019
Gerald Largent
"Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward and learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude." --St. John Chrysostom
"The Psalms are the work of angels, a heavenly institution, the spiritual incense." --St. Basil the Great
"The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts." --St. John Chrysostom
"When a man grows inwardly and increases in holiness, he is something great and marvelous. But just as the elephant fears the mouse, so the holy man is still afraid of sin. Lest after preaching to others, he himself should be cast away (1 Corinthians 9:27)." --St. John of Karpathos
"You are a man, and yet you spit the venom of a poisonous serpent. You are a man and yet you become like a raging beast. You have been given a mouth not to wound but to heal." --St. John Chrysostom