Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced That Heaven…

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present…

— John Brown

It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than give yourself…

— Isaac of Nineveh

“I do not know by what power I think; but well I know that I should never have thought without the assistance of my…

— Voltaire

“Behind every act in Israel's identity politics stretches, like a long black shadow, the idea of an eternal power and race.”

— Shlomo Sand

“Word – An eternal power, In a wrong place at a wrong time, Inflicts more pain than a weapon”

— Samir Satam

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

— Roz Savage

I feel just as much a part of 'War Eternal' as I do 'Will to Power.'

— Alissa White-Gluz

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in…

— Abraham Lincoln

“For her [Françoise], wealth was like a necessary condition without which virtue would lack both merit and charm. She made so little distinction between…

— Marcel Proust

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…

— Charles Dickens

The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden…

— Daniel K Judd

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to…

— Anonymous

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently

— Maya Angelou

Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man…

— Robert A. Heinlein