Our Own Virtue Quotes
- When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- It is not our free will but 'it is the Lord who sets the captive free' (Ps. 145:7). It is not our own virtue but… — John Cassian
- For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world. — Thomas a Kempis
- That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more… — Isaac Asimov