Quotes about Virtue
Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.
- Euripides
We were made for good works (cf. Phil. 1:11) to the glory and praise of our Maker, and to imitate God as far as might be.
- Gregory of Nazianzus
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
- John Milton
The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.
- Oswald Chambers
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
- Publilius Syrus
Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."
- Sam Storms
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
- William Law
The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.
- Martin Luther
God looks with favor at pure, not full, hands.
- Publilius Syrus
Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.
- Publilius Syrus