Quotes About Virtue

In regard to intellect and true virtue, every nation is on a par with the rest, and God has not in these respects chosen one people rather than another.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

God's rarest blessing is, after all, a good woman!

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.

As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God.

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

God grants an easy death only to the just.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."

Wherever God is adored, he is adored in virtue of a supernatural doctrine; wherever he is despised, he is despised in the name of nature and reason.

God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.