We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize … - Saint Basil

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Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

Saint Basil

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.

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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.

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When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor.

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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

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The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.

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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 should help in every kind of necessity.

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