"No one who is in this world will……" — Saint Basil
"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 substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good."
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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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Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
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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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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated…
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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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