Quotes About Virtue

I think my morals are perfectly... tight!

Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

It was pride that changed angels into devils it is humility that makes men as angels.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

As "pride is the beginning of all sin," (Eccl. x, 15) so humility is the foundation of all virtue. Learn to be really humble and not, as the hypocrite, humble merely in appearance.

Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work in you. it is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.

Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

Much harm may result from bad company and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse rather than what is better.

One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.

Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.

This wisdom sees water for water, earth for earth, fire for fire, and wind for wind. We are not surprised by change, and when it occurs, we can be like water and flow. When it is time to be solid like the earth, we can be steadfast. When the heat of enthusiasm is necessary, we are like the fire of all fires. We can blow with the wind of virtue, uplifting any situation. Or we can rest in space, accommodating everything. This is the power of a king or queen—the warrior of all warriors.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.