Jan Zlatoústý citáty
Jan Zlatoústý
Datum narození: 349
Datum úmrtí: 15. září 407
Další jména:Ióannés Chrýsostomos, Johannes Chrysostomus
Svatý Jan Zlatoústý byl konstantinopolský arcibiskup známý pro svou řečnickou a kazatelskou zdatnost. Rozhodně odsuzoval zneužívání pravomocí světskými i církevními činiteli. To vedlo např. k jeho sporu s císařovnou Eudokií. V roce 1568 jej papež Pius V. jmenoval učitelem církve.
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„I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish“
— John Chrysostom
Context: I do not think there are many among Bishops that will be saved, but many more that perish: and the reason is, that it is an affair that requires a great mind.
St. John Chrysostom, Homily III on Acts 1:12
„Christ is risen, and you are overthrown! Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen! Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice! Christ is risen, and life reigns! Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in a tomb! For Christ, being raised from the dead, has become the first-fruits of them that have slept.“
— John Chrysostom
Paschal Homily
„For the Master is gracious and receives the last even as the first; He gives rest to him that comes at the eleventh hour, just as to him who has labored from the first. He has mercy upon the last and cares for the first; to the one He gives, and to the other He is gracious. He both honors the work and praises the intention.“
— John Chrysostom
Paschal Homily
Both English Wikipedia and English Wikisource contain the whole text of this homily. In Byzantine Rite churches, the whole homily is read out annually as part of Paschal Matins service.
„O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burden of Christ assists the bearers of it, because we carry not grace, but grace us.“
— John Chrysostom
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 98
„Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?“
— John Chrysostom
Homilies on the Gospel of Saint John http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/240103.htm, Homily III
„As it is not to be imagined that the fornicator and the blasphemer can partake of the sacred Table, so it is impossible that he who has an enemy, and bears malice, can enjoy the holy Communion.… I forewarn, and testify, and proclaim this with a voice that all may hear! ‘Let no one who hath an enemy draw near the sacred Table, or receive the Lord’s Body! Let no one who draws near have an enemy! Do you have an enemy? Draw not near! Do you wish to draw near? Be reconciled, and then draw near, and touch the Holy Thing!“
— John Chrysostom
Homilies on the Statues http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf109/Page_472.html, Homily XX
„You received your fortune by inheritance; so be it! Therefore, you have not sinned personally, but how know you that you may not be enjoying the fruits of theft and crime committed before you?“
— John Chrysostom
Epist. i. ad Tim., 12, as cited in Francesco Saverio Nitti, Catholic Socialism (1895), p. 67
„For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force... it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.“
— John Chrysostom
On the Priesthood http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf109/Page_41.html, Book II
