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We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

Saint Basil
Growing Up, Evil, Sacred

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

Saint Basil
Evil, Soul, Causes
Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.141, CUA Press

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.

Saint Basil
Spring, Fall, Evil
Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.28, CUA Press

The Christian ought not to say anything behind his brother's back with the object of calumniating him, for this is slander, even if what is said is true. He ought to turn away from the brother who speaks evil against him?

Saint Basil
Christian, Brother, Evil

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.

Saint Basil
Teacher, Play, Evil
Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.133, CUA Press

It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does not generate death, nor is darkness the beginning of light, nor is disease the maker of health, but in the changes of conditions there are transitions from one condition to the contrary.

Saint Basil
Light, Evil, Darkness
Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.28, CUA Press

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

Saint Basil
Evil, Doctrine, Taught
Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.19, CUA Press

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