Character Quote by Marquis de Sade

Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!

— Pope Francis

“We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach.  Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet…

— Jerome K. Jerome

When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to…

— Saint John Chrysostom

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

— Baroness Orczy

“Bold is thoroughly sincere in his patriotic endeavours to mend mankind, and there is something to be admired in the energy with which he…

— Anthony Trollope

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The Good News must be backed by integrity in our lives. We cannot proclaim His love if we close our hearts to the hungry.…

— Richard J. Foster

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to…

— Sophie Swetchine

“If you that are unholy, and have so much corruption in you, to render you cruel, can bestow upon your children the good things…

— William Symington

“I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency,…

— William Shakespeare

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

— Francis Bacon