Saint Basil Quotes

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• There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do…
• The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They…
• Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.
• If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would…
• What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of…
• Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life.
• It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.
• Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who…
• Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.
• The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything…
• We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.
• I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a…
• Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.
• Our Savior was crucified for our sakes that by His death He might give us life and train and attract us all to endurance. To…
• When our Lord says, 'I have not spoken of Myself' (Jn. 12:49), and again, 'As the Father said to Me, so I speak' (Jn. 12:50),…
• It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.
• ... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to…
• I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).
• ... the more have been your trials, look for a more perfect reward from your just Judge. Do not take your present troubles ill. Do…
• To Whom does our God say, 'in our image' (Gen. 1:26), to whom if it is not to Him who is 'the brightness of His…

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