Patristic Quote of the Day

For today the psalm leads us out into battle array against the heretics, not so that we might fell them as they stand, but so that we might raise them up from their fallen state. I mean, that’s how our battle works. It doesn’t make corpses of the living, but fashions living people of the dead, brimming as it is with gentleness and considerable kindness. —St. John Chrysostom, On Saint Phocas, par. 4.