"You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea……" — Saint Basil
"You have heaven adorned, earth beautified, the sea populated with its own creatures, the air filled with birds which scour it in every direction. Studious listener, think of all these creations which God has drawn out of nothing; . . . recognize everywhere the wisdom of God; never cease to wonder, and, through every creature, to glorify the Creator."
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Saint Basil
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86 Quotes by Saint Basil
Saint Basil has 86 quotes on this site.
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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 Adorned Quotes
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Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is…
— Paul of the Cross
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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes…
— Plautus
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She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see…
— John M. Tobin, Jr.
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In naked beauty most adorned.
— John Milton
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In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially…
— Michael Fullan
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A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as…
— John Ray
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Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
— Ludovico Ariosto
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Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
— St. Jerome
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I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained…
— Ciaran Carson
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Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though…
— Johann Arndt
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