"Human life is but of brief duration. 'All……" — Saint Basil
"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 withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever' (Isa. 40:6, 8). Let us hold fast to the commandment that abides, and despise the unreality that passes away."
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Saint Basil
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86 Quotes by Saint Basil
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who…
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive…
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Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as…
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself…
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated…
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As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As…
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external…
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More Abides Quotes
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
— Arthur Ashe
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
— Franz Grillparzer
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
— Lucretius
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Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and…
— Alice Meynell
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The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from…
— Pope Pius XII
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Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.
— John Owen
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Life is a flux, nothing abides. Still we are such fools, we go on clinging. If change is the nature…
— Rajneesh
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Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
— Robert Browning
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Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the…
— Helen Keller
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The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their…
— Pericles
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Absolutely. If a Muslim who has-who is-a practicing Muslim who believes the word of the Koran to be the word…
— Brigitte Gabriel
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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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