Character Quote by Augustus Hare Download Open image “The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.” — Augustus Hare ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Christianity Obedience Paganism Virtue
Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“When it comes to specifying the values particular to paganism, people have generally listed features such as these: an eminently aristocratic conception of the… — Alain de Benoist Copy Share Image
“The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which Christianity has… — G.K. Chesterton 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 community, it… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love. — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Obedience is to surrender to God's will and it is a form of worship.” — Joshua A Adebodun Copy Share Image
Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
