Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“…dazzled by the shine of their own virtue, a shine that might not last (since virtue, once recognized in a flash, has… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but… — William Osler Copy Share Image
If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in… — Thomas Lickona Copy Share Image
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps… — John Brown Copy Share Image
If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact,… — Charles M. Blow 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
True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean,… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The virtue of losing is we get used to the fact that competing and to lose doesn't kill you. It just makes… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Ideas, Mike Jones, an engineer at Google explained, were like babies - everything about their environment said they shouldn't exist. But they… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
“No vices?’ ‘No vices.’ ‘Except men,’ Simon says. A tree branch waves in front of the living room window, blocking the sun,… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Much has already been said about the indisputable integrity of men such as AB Bardhan and Prakash Karat. So, why is it… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way… — Kingsley Martin Copy Share Image
Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
It is the peculiar boast of our country, that her happiness is alone dependent on the collective wisdom and virtue of her… — George Washington Copy Share Image
All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for… — Estelle Ramey Copy Share Image
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