The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction. 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.
There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not st… - Saint Basil
There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not st…
- Saint Basil
O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she sho… - Saint Basil
O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she sho…
Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit. - Saint Basil
Every divine action begins from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.
The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They be… - Saint Basil
The sun penetrates crystal and makes it more dazzling. In the same way, the sanctifying Spirit indwells in souls and makes them more radiant. They be…
He who plants kindness gathers love. - Saint Basil
He who plants kindness gathers love.
It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight. - Saint Basil
It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. - Saint Basil
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor. - Saint Basil
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it. - Saint Basil
If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it, you will not lose it.
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