One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. Thats… — John Piper Copy Share Image
And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart… — Peter Damian Copy Share Image
Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by… — Kitty Ferguson Copy Share Image
The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
But women are very differently situated with respect to eachother - for they are all rivals (...) Is it then surprising that… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The atonement, or forgiveness of sin once and for all achieved on the cross, weighs in, and heavily. But the atonement is… — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
Virtues are habits of mind, heart, and behavior. They develop through deliberate practice. Forming of a persons character lies in their own… — Dr Anil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility… Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as… — Paul Pruyser Copy Share Image
And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Virtue," he said. "The real thing. It's not some kind of cuddly teddy bear you can keep on the shelf until you… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue,… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
“The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope… — Confucius Copy Share Image
At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Much better stay in company! To love you must have someone else, Giving requires a legatee, Good neighbours need whole parishfuls Of… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that… — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
