[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
