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We thus become temples of God whenever earthly cares cease to interrupt the continuity of our memory of Him.

Basil of Caesarea

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

Basil of Caesarea

There is nothing which a prudent man must shun more carefully than living with a view to popularity and giving serious thought to the things esteemed by the multitude, instead of making sound reason his guide of life, so that, even if he must gainsay all men and fall into disrepute and incur danger for the sake of what is honourable, he will in no wise choose to swerve from what has been recognized as right.

Basil of Caesarea

What, then, shall we do? someone may ask. What else, indeed, than devote ourselves to the care of our souls, keeping all our leisure free from other things. Accordingly, we should not be slaves of the body, except so far as is strictly necessary; but our souls we should supply with all things that are best, through philosophy freeing them, as from a prison, from association with the passions of the body.

Basil of Caesarea

Basil of Caesarea

Basil of Caesarea

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Born: 329

Died: 379 (aged 50)

Bio: Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, was the Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor.

Known for:

Against Eunomius
Commentary on the Prophet Isaiah
Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)
Address to Young Men on Greek Literature

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