Saint Basil Quotes

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• When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

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  Christian, Peace, Money

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• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

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  Love, Inspirational, Thankful

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• If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

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  Wisdom, Men, Leaving

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• It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.

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  Christian, Sight, Perfect

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• There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Healing

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• He who plants kindness gathers love.

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  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

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  Father, Son, Spirit

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• Do not say, "this happened by chance, while this came to be of itself." In all that exists there is nothing disorderly, nothing indefinite, nothing without purpose, nothing by chance ... How many hairs are on your head? God will not forget one of them. Do you see how nothing, even the smallest thing, escapes the gaze of God?

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  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.

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  Religious, Divine Will, Helping

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• The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They become like so many powerhouses beaming grace and love around them.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Grace

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• The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

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  God, Animal, Vocation

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• We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

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  Growing Up, Evil, Sacred

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• Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.

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  Looks, Goodness

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• As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.

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  Christian, Hero, Adversity

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• To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

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  Lovers

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• If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life.

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  Angel, Shepherds, Saint

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• The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction. In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.

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  Love, Truth, Believe

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• They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.

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  Kindness, Courtesy, Plant

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• What is the mark of a Christian? That he be purified of all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit in the Blood of Christ, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God and the love of Christ, and that he have no blemish nor spot nor any such thing; that he be holy and blameless and so eat the Body of Christ and drink His Blood; for 'he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement to himself.' What is the mark of those who eat the Bread and drink the Cup of Christ? That they keep in perpetual remembrance Him who died for us and rose again.

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  Christian, Blood, Rose

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• There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

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  Eye, Neglected, All Things

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.114, CUA Press

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• I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.

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  Jesus, Men, Names

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• If you see your neighbor in sin, don't look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does that is good, and infrequently trying this in general, while not partialy judging, you will find that he is better than you.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

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  Love, Christian, Soul

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