If one had taken what is necessary to cover one's needs and had left the rest to those who are in need, no one would be rich, no one would be poor, no one would be in need. Saint Basil More Quotes by Saint Basil More Quotes From Saint Basil 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. Saint Basil land real men Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. Saint Basil rain men fall 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. Saint Basil adversity hero christian 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-you peace school 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. Saint Basil inspiration healing faith If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it. Saint Basil religious christian inspirational Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune. Saint Basil good-man challenges men 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 glory action desire Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors? Saint Basil gratitude dog men There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things. Saint Basil neglected eye all-things 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. Saint Basil naked shoes saint 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' Saint Basil christian heart father 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? Saint Basil religious christian inspirational Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace. Saint Basil grace lust heart Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason. Saint Basil laughter soul use 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 cases soul teacher 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. Saint Basil enquiry nice children We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience. Saint Basil experience pain comfort 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 Wherever you may go, the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator. Saint Basil remembrance plant may
