Quotes About Virtue

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

Humility, in its turn, can be achieved only through faith, fear of God, gentleness and the shedding of all possessions.

God is what's good in me.

It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself. People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.

I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm.

In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.

He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.

The law cannot make a wicked person virtuous…God's grace alone can accomplish such a thing.

Adore God, abhor sin.

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.