Quotes About Virtue

All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

It is a virtue and a prize to listen patiently to and put up with insults for the sake of God

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

He who knows what God is, studies to avoid sin.

When you are committed to doing what's right, you are sowing seeds for God's blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.

I thank god that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.

God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.

For God hates utterly the bray of bragging tongues.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.