Saint Basil Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.

  Saint Basil

  Life, Thinking, Dust

• If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

  Saint Basil

  Water, Grace, Baptism

• Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

  Saint Basil

  Swans, Deep Water, Fishing

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.131, CUA Press

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