Patristic Quote for the Day

"When all is said and done, there is one means and only one method of treatment available, and that is teaching by word of mouth. That is the best instrument, the best diet, and the best climate. It takes the place of medicine and cautery and surgery. When we need to cauterize or cut, we must use this. Without it all else is useless.... Let a man's diction be beggarly and his verbal composition simple and artless, but do not let him be inexpert in the knowledge and careful statement of doctrine." - St. John Chrysostom, On the Priesthood, Book IV, "The Ministry of the Word"