Basil of Caesarea Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.

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Such too was Moses, who rose up in great wrath to oppose those who sinned against God, but endured with meekness of spirit all slanders against himself.

Basil of Caesarea
You must give heed unto virtue, O men, which swims forth even with a man who has suffered shipwreck, and, on his coming naked to land, will render him more honoured than the happy Phaeacians.

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I consider it absurd that we should permit our senses to sate themselves without hindrance with their own material food, but that we should exclude the mind alone from its own particular activity.

Basil of Caesarea