No one is on my side

Indeed, when I look around, I seem to have no one on my side. I can only pray that I might be found in the number of those seven-thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal (1 Kg 19:18; Rom. 11:4). I know that those who are persecuting all of us right now seek my life; but this will not lessen the zeal which I owe to the churches of God one bit.

Saint Basil the Great

Letter 156, To the Presbyter Evagrius Ante and Post Nicene Fathers Series (www.newadvent.org/fathers) Revised by Kevin Knight for New Advent, further by A.H. Permalink