Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.
Saint BasilHe who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.
Saint BasilDo not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
Saint BasilIt 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