Virtue Quotes
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
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Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.
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The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.
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We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance.
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There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
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The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.
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There is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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A lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being forgotten.
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I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue.
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This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.
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In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.
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Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.
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There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
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Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
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You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?
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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.
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Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.
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It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.
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The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.
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Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.
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As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.
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Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride says that we are in control, and since our values govern our behavior, we can simply do life our way.
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
