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

  Saint Basil

  Age, Ruins, Reason

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• Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all "fulness of blessing," both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.

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  Children, Father, Son

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• Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

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  Treats, Resolve, Possession

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• To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

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  Lovers

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever' (Isa. 40:6, 8). Let us hold fast to the commandment that abides, and despise the unreality that passes away.

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  Christian, Flower, Forever

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• We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.

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  Order, Suffering, Scandal

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction. In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.

  Saint Basil

  Love, Truth, Believe

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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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• While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.

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  Real, Men, Land

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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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• Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

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  Men, Enough, Consumerism

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

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  Evil, Soul, Causes

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Animal, Thinking, Air

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• Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator.

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  Remembrance, May, Plant

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• We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

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  Silence, Catholic, Return

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.137, CUA Press

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• Our Savior was crucified for our sakes that by His death He might give us life and train and attract us all to endurance. To Him I press on, and to the Father and to the Holy Spirit. I strive to be found true, judging myself unworthy of this world's goods; and yet not I because of the world, but the world because of me. Think of all these things in your heart; follow them with zeal; fight, as you have been commanded, for the truth to the death: For Christ was made 'obedient' even 'to death'

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  Christian, Father, Heart

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• The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.

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  Shoes, Saint, Naked

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• We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

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  Pain, Experience, Comfort

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• As God illumines all people equally with the light of the sun, so do those who desire to imitate God let shine an equal ray of love on all people. For wherever love disappears, hatred immediately appears in its place. And if God is love, then hatred is the devil. Therefore as one who has love has God within himself, so he who has hatred within himself nurtures the devil within himself.

  Saint Basil

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is said is true. He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him?

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  Christian, Brother, Evil

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