St. John ChrysostomThinkers

The Bee is an insect more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.

Charity is the scope of all God’s commands.

Fasting is a medicine.

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

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

Mercy imitates God, and disappoints Satan.

Prohibition is irrational — If you say "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, goin~ on by degrees, " Would there were no steel,' because of the murderers, "Would there were no night," because of the thieves, "Would there were no light because of the informers, and "would there were no women," because of adultery.

Punishment is the surgeon's knife for the suppurating wound of sin.

Punishment is good — when the bad are punished, others become better.