Saint Basil Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• 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

• We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

  Saint Basil

  Heart, Men, Knowing

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.432, CUA Press

• If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

  Saint Basil

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  Saint Basil

  Eye, Sight, Mind

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.147, CUA Press

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  Saint Basil

  Fall, Utterance, Ghost

• He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

  Saint Basil

  Magic, Sorcery, Penance

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