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

Saint Basil

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While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.
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In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.
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The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts.
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We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.
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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.
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Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.
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Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
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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.
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We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.
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Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting.
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
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The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.
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It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.
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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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Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding the second, hardness of heart the third, want of grace.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
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