“I know many who fast, pray, sigh, and demonstrate every manner of piety, so long as it costs them nothing, yet would not part with a penny to help those in distress.” — Basil the Great Copy Share Image
“Care for the needy requires the expenditure of wealth: when all share alike, disbursing their possessions among themselves, they each receive a small portion… — Basil the Great Copy Share Image
“I know many who fast, pray, sigh, and demonstrate every manner of piety, so long as it costs them nothing, yet would not part… — Basil the Great Copy Share Image
“You showed no mercy; it will not be shown to you. You opened not your house; you will be expelled from the Kingdom. You… — Basil the Great Copy Share Image
“not heaven and earth and the great seas, not the creatures that live in the water and on dry land, not plants, and stars,… — Basil the Great Copy Share Image
“When I go into the house of one of these tasteless newly rich individuals, and see it bedecked with every imaginable hue, I know… — Basil the Great Copy Share Image
“After they have squandered their wealth among so many pursuits, if there is any left over, they hide it in the ground and guard… — Basil the Great Copy Share Image
“Had you clothed the naked, had you given your bread to the hungry, had your door been open to every stranger, had you been… — Basil the Great Copy Share Image
“What then will you answer the Judge? You gorgeously array your walls, but do not clothe your fellow human being; you adorn horses, but… — Basil the Great Copy Share Image
