Saint Basil Quotes About Eyes

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

  San Basilio

  Eye, Neglected, All Things

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

• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  San Basilio

  Ojo, Vista, Mente

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.147, CUA Press

• Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

  San Basilio

  Ojo, Hombres, Pensamiento

• All 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.

  San Basilio

  Stars, Eye, Views

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