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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

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  Men, Challenges, Good Man

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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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• We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.

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  Faith, Christianity, Christian Life

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• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

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  Children, Nice, Enquiry

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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 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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• Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

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  Age, Ruins, Reason

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• Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.

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  Heart, Lust, Grace

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• Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

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  Dog, Gratitude, Men

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.143, CUA Press

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