Quotes from St. Basil

By nature, men desire the beautiful.

Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

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

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

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.

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Valentines Day is a masochistic holiday. If you're in a relationship, then this is the one day you're supposed to say 'I love you', and send gifts to ensure that it means more than the other 364 days of the year; and if you're single, you feel misera