27 August 2006

Patristic Quote for the Day

"What is the mark of a faithful soul? To be in these dispositions of full acceptance on the authority of the words of Scripture, not venturing to reject anything nor making additions. For, if ‘all that is not of faith is sin’ as the Apostle says, and ‘faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God,’ everything outside Holy Scripture, not being of faith, is sin.”
-- Saint Basil the Great (The Fathers Of The Church, vol. 9, "The Morals" page 204 ).

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