Quotes by : Saint Basil

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself....

What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does....

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps....

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

God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts....

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions....

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

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human....

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God....