Therefore, not only are their passions satanic, but their lives are diabolic. So I say to you that these are even worse than murderers, and that it would be better to die than to live in such dishonor. A murderer only separates the soul from the body, whereas these destroy the soul inside the body..... There is nothing, absolutely nothing more mad or damaging than this perversity.
Saint John ChrysostomLet us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!
Saint John ChrysostomTo destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'
Saint John ChrysostomPoor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts
Saint John ChrysostomDepart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.
Saint John Chrysostom