Quotes about Virtue

We knew the promise had never been safety, or that bad things would not happen if we were good and virtuous. The promise is only that God is in it with us, no matter what it is.

We do wrong, with all the best will in the world. And sometimes we do right without even knowing it.

For the opposite of sin is faith and never virtue, and we live in a world which believes that self-control can make us virtuous. But that's not how it works. How many men and women we have encountered, of great personal virtue and moral rectitude, convinced of their own righteousness, who have also been totally insensitive to the needs of others and sometimes downright cruel!

You'll never go wrong in doing what is right.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

Humility is, nothing but that simple consent of the creature to let God be all, in virtue of which it surrenders itself to His working alone.

The fruit of the Spirit is love." We read that "Love is the fulfilling of the law"' (Romans 13: 10)

Humility, the place of entire dependence upon God, is from the very nature of things the first duty and the highest virtue of His creatures. And so pride—the loss of humility—is the root of every sin and evil.

The fruit of the Spirit is love." Why? Because nothing but love can expel and conquer our selfishness.