Quotes About Virtue

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

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.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

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

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Every person, as every institution, and, above all, every religion is to be judged not by the amount of atrocities or the wrong committed but by the right conduct.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts.

Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.

Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.

Religion is treasured when it brings goodness out of a person.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worries very much about his health or a really good person who worries much about his own soul.

You do not have to worhip god to be good and you certainly do not have to be good to worship god.

I don't even like the phrase 'opportunity to sin' because it implies the opportunity to obey.

We've spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that's precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.