Saint Basil Quotes

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• The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is…
• No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to…
• Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass…
• What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends…
• The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts...
• All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace…
• Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
• To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of…
• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the…
• Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time…
• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than…
• God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that,…
• He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who…
• If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the…
• Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the…
• Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,…
• Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and…
• No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated…
• Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be…

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