Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Basil Moreau

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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Basil Moreau

Basil Moreau, C.S.C. was the French priest who founded the Congregation of Holy Cross from which three additional congregations were founded, namely the Marianites of Holy Cross, the Sisters of the Holy Cross, and the Sisters of Holy Cross. Father Moreau was beatified on September 15, 2007 in Le Mans, France.

February 11, 1799 - January 20, 1873
We shall always place education side by side with instruction; the mind will not be cultivated at the expense of the heart. While we prepare useful citizens for society, we shall likewise do our utmost to prepare citizens for heaven.
How we educate the mind will change with the times; how we cultivate the heart is and will remain timeless.
Zeal is the great desire to make God known, loved, and served, and thus to bring knowledge of salvation to others. Activity flows from this virtue. Teachers who possess it fulfill the duties of their profession with enthusiasm, love, courage, and perseverance.
Since God alone provides the means for the successful accomplishment of any task, it seems evident that a person needs to be called by God to be an effective teacher. Without this call to teaching, how will anyone be able to put up with everything that teachers face daily?
Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness. — © Basil Moreau
Our zeal is always guided by charity. Everything is done with strength and gentleness.
For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.
Education is the art of helping young people to completeness; for the Christian, this means education is helping a young person to be more like Christ, the model of all Christians.
With eyes of faith consider the greatness of your mission and the wonderful amount of good which you can accomplish.
It is God's hand which has guided everything, and it is God whom we must thank above all.
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