I exhort you, beloved. Selected conversations. Saint John Chrysostom

Touch the sleeping human heart and arouse it to spiritual life and love, to persuade the human mind to the truth of the Divine, the only truth - that is what the great universal teacher can do. During the life of Chrysostom, the crowds of people went to the temple in order to only hear it. When the wicked rulers on the very holiday of the Holy Easter expelled the Holy Chrysostom from the temple, the people poured behind him, and in the open field the saint performed Easter worship with such a huge gathering of people that the authorities had to send troops to protect order in order to avoid dangerous consequences for themselves. And when the beloved Chinese preacher was sent the same authorities from the capital (for the exposure of their wickedness), the indignant people went out into the streets and showed such indignation that the entire center of Constantinople was burned out, and until they burned the imperial palace, the rulers who were frightened my life, I had to return Chrysostom.