Saint Basil Quotes

We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

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.

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.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

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

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.