Saint Basil Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

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

  Saint Basil

  God, Animal, Vocation

• 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.

  Saint Basil

  Animal, Thinking, Air

• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

  Saint Basil

  Animal, Parent, Reason

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.142, CUA Press

• O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as their home in common with us. We must remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to thee in song, has been a groan of pain. May we realize that they live, not for us alone, but for themselves and for Thee and that they love the sweetness of life.

  Saint Basil

  Song, Brother, Pain

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