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From Quotes by Saint Basil
- Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you…
- Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will…
- We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for…
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death,…
- Extirpate two thoughts within thyself: do not consider thyself worthy of anything great, and do not think that any other man is much lower than…
- If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.
- When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by…
- 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…
- ... the more have been your trials, look for a more perfect reward from your just Judge. Do not take your present troubles ill. Do…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get…
- We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention…
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