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• When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.

  Saint Basil

  Desire, Action, Glory

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• 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

  Peace, Love You, School

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• 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

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• ... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Soul, Deeds

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• Reprimand and rebuke should be accepted as healing remedies for vice and as conducive to good health. From this it is clear that those who pretend to be tolerant because they wish to flatter---those who thus fail to correct sinners---actually cause them to suffer supreme loss and plot the destruction of that life which is their true life.

  Saint Basil

  Healing, Loss, True Life

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• I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for? in the words of the Preacher, 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Wise, Men

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• When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?

  Saint Basil

  Names, Clothes, Giving

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• A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us.

  Saint Basil

  Abortion, Fetus, Murder

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• He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

  Saint Basil

  Thankful, Kindness, Tree

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• Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.

  Saint Basil

  Ears, Unexpected, Tidings

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• I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

  Saint Basil

  Teacher, Soul, Cases

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• Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God, in favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth

  Saint Basil

  Letting Go, Doctrine, Favors

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• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Effort, Flesh

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.331, CUA Press

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• We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices, but we should rely entirely on God.

  Saint Basil

  Thinking, Achieve, Should

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.180, CUA Press

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• Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

  Saint Basil

  Fall, Light, Numbers

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.22, CUA Press

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• ... the more have been your trials, look for a more perfect reward from your just Judge. Do not take your present troubles ill. Do not lose hope. Yet a little while and your Helper will come to you and will not tarry (cf. Hab. 2:3).

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Cfs, Perfect

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• I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.

  Saint Basil

  Jesus, Christ, Worthy

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• What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.

  Saint Basil

  Teacher, Play, Evil

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.133, CUA Press

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• Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Jesus, Kindness

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• You can see that a city is prosperous by the wealth of goods for sale in the market. Land too we call prosperous if it bears rich fruit. And so also the soul may be counted prosperous if it is full of good works of every kind.

  Saint Basil

  Land, Cities, Soul

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• When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by Him, finally become spiritual themselves, and their grace is sent forth to others. From this comes knowledge of the future, understanding of mysteries, apprehension of hidden things, distribution of wonderful gifts, heavenly citizenship, a place in the choir of angels, endless joy in the presence of God, becoming like God, and, the highest of all desires, becoming God.

  Saint Basil

  Spiritual, Fall, Angel

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• 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

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• We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

  Saint Basil

  Father, Son, Honor

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• God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

  Saint Basil

  Heart, Secret, Speech

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• [Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.

  Saint Basil

  Disappointment, Rain, Fall

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