Quotes about Virtue
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
— John Wesley
True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.
— John Wesley
Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked people avoid sin because they fear punishment.
— John Wesley
Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.
— John Wesley
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
— John Wooden
The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who attempts to build up a noble, virtuous character independent of the grace of Christ is building his house upon the shifting sand.
— Ellen White
Principle, right, honesty, should ever be cherished.
— Ellen White
The fruit of the tree of life in the Garden of Eden possessed supernatural virtue. To eat of it was to live forever. Its fruit was the antidote of death. Its leaves were for the sustaining of life and immortality. But through man's disobedience, death entered the world. Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the fruit of which he had been forbidden to touch. His transgression opened the floodgates of woe upon our race.
— Ellen White
If you are to be saints in heaven, you must first be saints upon the earth.
— Ellen White
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things. Matthew 12:35.
— Ellen White
Bad habits are more easily formed than good habits, and the bad habits are given up with more difficulty. The natural depravity of the heart accounts for this well-known fact—that it takes far less labor to demoralize the youth, to corrupt their ideas of moral and religious character, than to engraft upon their character the enduring, pure, and uncorrupted habits of righteousness and truth.
— Ellen White
The highest evidence of nobility in a Christian is self-control.
— Ellen White