John Chrysostom Quotes

There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

There are hearts to gladden... kind words to say... gifts to be given... deeds to be done.

You don't need a reason to help people.

We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.

Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

The highest distinction is service to others.

The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.

I like writing about people who spend their time trying to help others for the greater good. That's what Americans are supposed to be about, right?

I can't help that we help people so much.