Quotes about Virtue
Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
— John Barrymore
There is no part of the whole course of our Saviour Christ's life or death, but it is well worthy our looking on; and from each part in it there goeth virtue to do us good.
— Lancelot Andrewes
It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.
— St. Jerome
Honesty that can be trusted and respected is a very fragrant flower in the life of a Christian.
— AW Tozer
Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.
— Timothy Keller
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
— Edmund Burke
True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
— Edmund Burke
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
— Edmund Burke
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
— Edmund Burke
The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate seems the particular duty and proper trust of a member of the House of Commons. But the liberty, the only liberty, I mean is a liberty connected with order: that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.
— Edmund Burke
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
— Edmund Burke