Saint Basil Quotes About Neighbors

Quotes about: Neighbors

• 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.

  Saint Basil

  Love, Christian, Soul

• 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.

  Saint Basil

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

• Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in his own thoughts makes light of the matter, all find to their surprise that they have drawn upon themselves by their neglect a personal misfortune.

  Saint Basil

  Light, Environmental, Care

  Saint Basil the Great, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Letters”, p.190, Aeterna Press

• 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, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

  Saint Basil

  Heart, Secret, Speech

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