The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The allure of immodesty is not in what is seen but what is not seen. Modesty issues a challenge for one man… — Dannah Gresh Copy Share Image
Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself. — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that… — Edward Augustus Bowles Copy Share Image
Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal. — Democritus Copy Share Image
I have always believed in seeking happiness in the happiness of others and the virtue of seeking God's pleasure in helping His… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience… — Carl Hilty Copy Share Image
There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The only path to a tranquil life is through virtue. [Lat., Semita certe Tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“For Justine's conception of virtue is a specifically feminine one in that sexual abstinence plays a large part in it. In common… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism. — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
What matters at this stage is the construction of local forms of community within which civility and the intellectual and moral life… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot… — Willie Brown Copy Share Image
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The most striking feature if this map is the stark fat of the Two Roads. There is the road that leads to… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
How are you going to teach virtue if you teach the relativity of all ethical ideas? Virtue, if it implies anything at… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I think the role of comedy in your life should supersede anything and everything negative. Just by virtue of the fact that… — DeRay Davis Copy Share Image