St John Chrysostom on dogmas and ethos.

Let us not pay heed to these people, let up stop up our hearing against them, and let us believe the Divine Scripture, and following what is said in it, let us strive to preserve in our souls sound dogmas, and at the same time to lead also a right life, so that our life would both testify of the dogmas, and the dogmas would give firmness to our life… If we live well but will be negligent over right dogmas, we can acquire nothing for our salvation.  If we wish to be delivered from Gehenna and receive the Kingdom, we must be adorned both with the one and with the other – both with rightness of dogmas, and strictness of life.”  (St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on Genesis 13:4, p. 107.)

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