Portal:Saints/Quotes/August 2007

If anyone claims to be able to be completely self-sufficient, to be capable of reaching perfections without anyone else's help, to succeed in plumbing the depths of Scripture entirely unaided, he is behaving just like someone trying to practice the trade of a carpenter without touching wood. The Apostle would say to such: "It is not the hearers of the Law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the Law who will be justified" (Rom. 2:13). Basil of Caesarea