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 BasilHe who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.
Saint BasilThere is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
Saint BasilDrunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.
Saint BasilIf someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.
Saint BasilAll these stupendous objects are daily around us; but because they are constantly exposed to our view, they never affect our minds, so natural is it for us to admire new, rather than grand objects. Therefore the vast multitude of stars which diversify the beauty of this immense body does not call the people together; but when any change happens therein, the eyes of all are fixed upon the heavens.
Saint Basil