Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune. (Basil of Caesarea)

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

Basil of Caesarea

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As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of God cannot be clearly communicated by way of teaching if we ourselves are not able to penetrate into the goodness of the Lord by our own experience.

Basil of Caesarea

This is how you pray continually, not by offering prayer in words, but by joining yourself to God through your whole way of life, so that your life becomes one continuous and uninterrupted prayer.

Basil of Caesarea

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

Basil of Caesarea

A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us.

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Hell can't be made attractive, so the devil makes attractive the road that leads there.

Basil of Caesarea