Quotes About Virtue

Our fleshly nature tempts us to put ourselves above others or seek a position or place for ourselves instead of allowing others to have it.

Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit but others call it the Godhead manifestation of karmic virtue.

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

What saves the virtue of many a woman is that protecting god, the impossible.

Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's favor.

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.

The opportunity to do what is right is available at all times.

The righteous God promotes the cause of righteousness.

The Holy God performs righteous acts.

The holy God proved holy by his righteous acts.

May I never dishonour the name of God.

Every good deed is a glory to God.

Sincerity' and 'morality' is the main road to go to God, the rest are the 'by-ways'.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

God is letting me shine, because I've got a good heart.

The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.

A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.

Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.

It is better to be good than to be original.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.