Firsts Quote by Anonymous

“After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself…

— C.S. Lewis

God allows us to give rise to the practice of two beautiful virtues: perseverance, which leads us to attain the goal, and constancy, which…

— Vincent de Paul

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

— John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

To mend our own relationship with God, regaining God's favor after having once lost it, is beyond the power of any one of us.…

— J. I. Packer

A return to virtue must begin individually in our hearts and in our homes. You are the guardians of virtue.

— Elaine S. Dalton

Virtue is an inner strength. It expands your nature.

— John Bradshaw

Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

Your intimate, personal relationship with god is the source of your strength, when things are going wrong.

— Senora Roy

Virtue, for us, is obedience to God in Christ.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

I think God sometimes makes us go through the hard things first, so we know how to truly appreciate all the good things.

— Anonymous

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

— Francis Spufford

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad…

— Alain de Botton