Quotes About Virtue

Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.

Suppose there was no anger, no profanity, no lying, no grumbling or complaining; suppose there were no dirty stories told, no unjust criticism—what a different world this would be!

We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of "might is right.

The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn't make it right!

A godlikeness of character is the Christian's proper heritage in this earthly walk.

It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person's true character.

Integrity means that if our private life was suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

When we do good—even when others are doing wrong—God will bless us.

Living the Christian life means striving for holiness.

Our lives are to be characterized by patience, for it is important in developing the mature, stable character which God wants to produce in His people.

Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach.

Patience is part of true Christlikeness, something we so often admire in others without demanding it of ourselves.

If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.

Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life—free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs—than to be artificially [stimulated].

Cursing, telling smutty stories, smearing the good name of another, and referring irreverently to God and the Scriptures may be considered as coming under the expression corrupt speech. Our speech is to be clean, pure, and wholesome.

Only the good die young.

Now, the drug is taboo. You do not fool around with it. You give yourself to it and you are caught. I have a horror of it. I have lived in China without ever being curious enough to put a pipe to my lips. It is not a question of virtue. I do not like pharmacopoeia. I like lucidity. It is my guiding star. I will have nothing to do with the vertigo of opium which, with the single exception of De Quincey, is no friend to poetry. It is a filthy poison.

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

True eloquence takes no heed of eloquence, true morality takes no heed of morality.