Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
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“Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
The civilization you sit in ... is now obvious in crisis, perhaps death pangs, twisting grotesquely like a dying animal, swirling down… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honor. — Bilal Zahoor Copy Share Image
The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“what time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts. Anyone can develop these… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Put very simply, Satan's power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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