Quotes about Virtue

I have come to believe that the defining moments of most lives are not acts of courage or greatness, rather they are the simple acts: expressions of virtue or vice that are tossed carelessly like seeds from a farmer's hand, leaving their fruits to be revealed at a future date.

However, let us remember that grace is increased, in the exercise of it, not by virtue of the exercise itself, but as Christ by his Spirit flows into the soul and brings us nearer to himself, the fountain, so instilling such comfort that the heart is further enlarged.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Everybody has something good inside them. Some hide it, some neglect it, but it is there

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.