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Quotes by Chrysostom

4 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

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.— filed under Christ the Burden Bearer

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue. -— filed under Humility

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.— filed under Intemperance

Consider how august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and archangels throng around, when cherubim and seraphim encircle with their blaze the throne, that a mortal may approach with unrestrained confidence, and converse with heaven's dread Sovereign! O, what honor was ever conferred like this?— filed under Prayer