Quotes about Virtue
When you are committed to doing what's right, you are sowing seeds for God's blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.
- Joel Osteen
God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.
- CS Lewis
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
- GK Chesterton
I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.
- John Wooden
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.
- Andy Stanley
Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.
- David Jeremiah
It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
- RC Sproul
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
- John Tillotson
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.
- Aristotle
Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
- CS Lewis