"There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things."

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Source : Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.114, CUA Press

Saint Basil

#Eye Quotes #Neglected Quotes

“As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.”
“If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.”
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.”
“If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up your abode in the desert of the renunciation of your own will, and flee the world. What world? The world of the lust of the eyes, of your fallen self (I JN 2:16), the presumptuousness of your own thoughts, the deceit of things you can see.”
“I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.”
“When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.”
“Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this has led to scientific ideas...being advanced with a tenacity which so exceeds their intrinsic worth that one can only suspect the operation of psychological forces lying very much deeper than the usual academic desire of a theorist to support his or her theory.”
“Babies are like poems. They're beautiful to their creator, but to other people, they're silly and they're irritating.”

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