Quotes about Virtue

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is found to praise and honour and glory.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

It is by means of our own victories, if we are not regenerated, that the work of Nemesis is wrought: doom breaks from the shell of our very virtue.

When I do good, I feel good, when I do bad, I feel bad, and that's my religion.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

The Lord, Jesus Christ, is our perfect example of patience.

The true source of freedom is found in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Christians believe it is he who fully discloses the human potential for virtue and goodness, and it is he who liberates us from sin and darkness.

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.