Our Virtue Quotes

17 quotes by 15 authors

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed… — Teresa of Avila
We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue. — Henry David Thoreau
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau
Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation. — Thomas Adams
Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public… — Eric Liu
Of what use is a long life, if we amend so little? Alas, a long life often adds to our sins rather than to our… — Thomas a Kempis
If we must live with a perpetual sense that the world and the men in it are greater than we and too much for us,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour… — John Brown
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our… — Blaise Pascal
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends… — Edmund Burke
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we… — Stacy Schiff
We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We… — Anchee Min
Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness… — Saint John Chrysostom
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. — George William Russell
Someone once said that every form of government has one characteristic peculiar to it and if that characteristic is lost, the government will fall. In… — Ronald Reagan
Our reputation is shadow of our character, and the shadow is of our virtue and values which we inherit. — Anil Sinha

Who Wrote These Our Virtue Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 17 Our Virtue Quotes as follows: