“When you are truly aligned with virtue, there is no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority. When you are truly aligned with… — Chin-Ning Chu Copy Share Image
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters,… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight.… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If children were taught to question and think through their beliefs, instead of being taught the superior virtue of faith without question,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Not only are we going to shift in our own lives - away from always trying to identify ourselves on the basis… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness… — Pope Paul VI 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
The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The greatest virtue is not in forgiving those who apologize, or in being kind to those who are kind to you. The… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats… — Menander Copy Share Image
Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will… — Horace Copy Share Image
God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Well, we have nothing to hide. Our history is an open book. They may find what they are looking for, but the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious, ...… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and… — Swami Vivekananda 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
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you.… — Saint Ignatius Copy Share Image
“Humility, the place of entire dependence upon God, is from the very nature of things the first duty and the highest virtue… — Andrew Murray Copy Share Image
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged… — Rudolf Hiferding Copy Share Image
Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean… — Fatty Arbuckle Copy Share Image
I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
![“For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness of grace and truth. He raises the level of morals, fosters virtue, comforts the sorrowful, strengthens the weak and stirs up all those who draw near to Him to imitate Him, so that they may…” quote by Pope Paul VI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69e/pope-paul-vi-7633_blessed_for-he-is-in-the-midst-of-us-day-and-nig_2270000.jpg)
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