Saint Basil Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.

  Saint Basil

  Light, Vegetarianism, Meat

• 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.

  Saint Basil

  Spring, Fall, Evil

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.28, CUA Press

• Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

  Saint Basil

  Fall, Light, Numbers

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.22, CUA Press

• Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

  Saint Basil

  Evil, Soul, Causes

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.141, CUA Press

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