Character Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.

— John Armstrong

Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.

— Anonymous

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

— Anonymous

The heart of the matter is that there is nothing the matter with our hearts. It is not love that is to blame. But…

— Gay Hendricks

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

— Anonymous

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

— John Updike

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins caused by the lack of it.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

You dont love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults

— Anonymous

the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.

— Susanna Rowson

When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.

— John Vianney