Quotes about Virtue

How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs.

Be pure in heart,, be pure in mind!

The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

The development of wickedness is one thing; the presence of any measure of holiness or virtue is another.

Because one stage of depravity is lower than another, this does not warrant the denial that the first stage is degraded. The development of wickedness is one thing; the presence of any measure of holiness or virtue is another. The absence of certain forms of sins does not imply any innate purity. It might as well be affirmed that a recent corpse, which is less loathsome, is therefore less dead than one which is far gone in decay and putrefaction.

God is just and good, and ever does that which is right.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.