Basil of Caesarea - Evil Quotes

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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.

Basil of Caesarea

It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.

Basil of Caesarea

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.

Basil of Caesarea

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

Basil of Caesarea

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

Basil of Caesarea