Quotes About Virtue

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the Good and the Bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Patrick) Henry rightly understood that the moral condition of the American people was a direct product of their religious faith, and that politics and morality were inevitably intertwined. Thus, the political structure ultimately rested on a religious foundation. The "great pillars of all government and of social life, "Henry once observed, are virtue, morality, and religion.

If you wanted to show that someone was a good chap, the essence of a good and clean Englishman, you would say that he was an athlete.

self-preservation has one virtue, which is that it doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is. With altruism, there's almost always a hidden motive. The benefactor wants to be lionized or, worse, have the person he's helping at his mercy. Otherwise why would people who give money to universities want buildings named after them?

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

Humility and purity are the wings which carry us to God and make us almost divine.

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.

The Holy Eucharist is like a divine Storehouse filled with every virtue; God has placed It in the world so that everyone one may draw from It.

Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.