If you see your neighbor in sin, don't look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the… — 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
